Difference between input type and buttons

HTML & CSS
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What is the difference between writing:

<input type="submit" value="submit"> and
<button>Submit</button>

I have also seen somewhere that it should be…


<input type='submit' value='text' />

<button type='submit'>text</button>

Which way is correct and must you always close the with />? because in the mmtuts tutorial on youtube, he just wrote

<input type="text" name="name">

without closing it…

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Mozilla has a great reference for HTML. (You can even add it to the search engines in your browser.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button [quote=“piano0011, post:1, topic:295729”]
I have also seen somewhere that it should be…

<input type='submit' value='text' />
[/quote]

The trailing slash is only used if you have an xhtml doctype. If you’re using HTML it should be omitted.

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Note: no-one uses XHTML today, since it would bail out on even the smallest error.

Note: an XHTML doctype alone doesn’t make it an XHTML document (e.g. XHTML5 must be served without doctype). For that the XHTML MIME-Header is needed. So most XHTML you see out there is parsed as HTML.

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