[tomkarho]

I seem to recall that once upon a time the default type for a button was in fact "button" but at some point (somewhere in the region of html 5 / es6) it was switched into "submit".

[pwdisswordfishy]

The nice thing about actually versioning standards (instead of doing that lazy "living standard" shit) is that you can actually look such things up.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-type-BU...