Hi,I agree that the divs are a bad way to display the buttons. It was a long time ago I decided to use those because of different reasons.
Anyway, just yesterday I finished a new model you already mentioned:From my point of view this is about one of the best ways possible (you could only argue about the additional span but I don't mind it). I decided to use these new buttons now like on home.php, forum_showforum.php and forum_showtopic.php.
If you think I should not please tell me why.

It's true that the buttons in the top right corner of some forum pages are above the topic/forum name. I'll think about let them float and this way make the name break to a new line when it is to long.
I agree with the textarea in firefox, I will have a look at it.

At the moment I'm still trying to get to long usernames in the active users list fixed.

Cu, Erik

Erik, the bad thing about using an anchor for button is that you have to click on the thing instead of just pressing Enter.
Maybe it can be fixed with javascript but still it isn't as good.

@quangntenemy: pressing enter works fine for me
@erik: I don't think your method has any disadvantages. I just wanted to say that its exceptional.

Maybe in opera, but not ff. In ff you need an input type="submit" for it to work.

I have Windows, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
and it definitly works

Hi,

I think the issue was to press the button with return while still having the text fields focused (for convenience).
Of course this is possible with Javascript. Anyway, I found it works with a submit button. These get triggered with return even if another element is focused.

Try it now on /home.php.

Cu, Erik

OK works now But it's still submitting when the username or password is empty. Because it's the default action.
Solution:

  function LoginClick() {
    if ((document.form_login.edit_username.value.length==0) || (document.form_login.edit_password.value.length==0)) {
      alert("Please enter your username and password.");
      return false;
    }
    else {
      document.form_login.action="login.php";
      return true;
    }
  }
.
.
.
<input class="button" type="submit" onclick="return LoginClick()" title="Click here to log in after entering your username and password." value="Login" />

You might want to update the buttons for login.php too.

Since you're making a number of updates, perhaps I should add in a suggestion -
I'm sure you hash the passwords, presumably md5. It would be good to hash the password on the client before submitting the form.

@alternative: I just wanted to say that
+: the user can be sure that his pw will not be submited in pt (so no evil bs admin can view our pw's)
-: I think you have to check the input

it's not just about the tbs admins. i'm sure they all have integrity anyway.
prevents network sniffing (although given that there are only 6363 users as of now, the chance of them living in the same area and connecting to the exact same unencrypted network is pretty slim - having said that, i'm not sure how tor works actually)
apart from that, i don't understand what you mean by your negative statement.