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Using multiple submit buttons on a single form

Wondering how to create an HTML form with more than a single submit button and check which of those buttons was pressed? First, let's create a form with a single submit button called "Submit 1" (assuming that the script we're calling to handle the form submission or the ACTION attribute is "mulsub.asp"). Now let's add two more submit buttons to the form and call them "Submit 2" and "Submit 3." Note how we kept the name of all three submit buttons the same -- "bsubmit." The only difference is the "value" attribute with unique values -- "Submit 2" and "Submit 3." When we create the script, these unique values will help us to figure out which of the submit buttons was pressed. Following is a sample Active Server Pages script to check for the submit button. We're simply checking the value of the button(s) named "bsubmit" and performing the appropriate action within the script. Finally let's combine the HTML form tags and the script commands into a single ASP script.