I apologise in advance for not being able to provide any actual code, as the problem appears in a page which is currently private :-/ Please bear with me.
I have an HTML form. I attached a (proprietary) calendar widget to one of the text input fields. When the user tabs into the field the calendar appears. On the calendar there are a couple of buttons (to move to the previous/next month). When the user clicks on one of these buttons the calendar updates itself accordingly, but also - the form submits! There's NOTHING in the calendar code that touches anything other than the calendar itself and the text input field it is attached to, let alone submits a form! I would appreciate any clue regarding any of the following questions:
1) What could possibly have submitted the form in such a setting?
2) What things generally submit a form, other than clicking on the submit button or hitting the enter key? (In particular, do ordinary buttons submit forms? Under which circumstances?)
3) As a workaround in case I don't manage to figure this out, is there a way to simply totally disable submitting the form (and then reenable it in an event handler attached to the submit key)?
Note(s): The calendar behaves normally other than that - responds normally to key events and to click events on the dates themselves (which are not buttons). I tried this on both Firefox and Chrome and got the same behaviour. I tried to follow the click event handler step-by-step with FireBug, and everything seemed perfectly normal - but the moment it finished the form was submitted (and the page reloaded). The widget uses jQuery 1.7.2. Any help in understanding and/or solving this will be most appreciated!