rooting submit button in anchor

what happens when i put an submit button in an anchor?

Unspecified behaviour, stemming from invalid HTML, so it depends upon the browser.

The real question is, why would you do that?

northing happens it depends on how you put it. i think its a matter of playing around with your button css.

<button type="submit" name = "submit" value= "submit" style="background: none; border: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Styled text</span></button>

i had a pagination class, where you customize the links a bit so i tried a submit button to go to the next page because i also need $_POST information before going to the next page... which will not work obviously

Save the result of the POSTed data in a temp location, give the saved data an ID, and then use the ID to retrieve it on the next page.

Cache your data, in other words.

maybe the session will then help

if you're creating a multi-stage, multi-page form, you should make use of MySQL transactions.

@mahngiel, what do you mean with multi stage multi page because it might be the case.

I have a survey that i build up on a document survey.php

i loop throught the questions going to the next like: survey.php?page=1 --> question 1  survey.php?page=2 --> question 2.

@mahngiel, what do you mean with multi stage multi page because it might be the case.

Several pages until completion with data that will be (eventually) submitted into the database at the end.

However, if the user can abandon the form and come back later where they left off, you could a) insert into their table row after each question or b) provide a save button which uses the transaction

how to go about that?