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I am new to programming and was going through forms in HTML and I was looking if I use a submit button I can see the query string having the values of my text boxes(because the default method is GET), now I tried enclosing the submit button within an anchor tag and now I can't see the query string although, the method I have chosen is GET. Also I know I can achieve a redirection by using ACTION but I am deliberately not doing that.

My question is, why does the query string disappear when I use an anchor tag around submit button?

Code:

<form method="get">
FirstName<br>
<input type="text" name="fname"><br>
LastName<br>
<input type="text" name="lname"><br>
<a href="testpage.php"><input type="submit" name="sub" value="submit"></a>
</form>
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Submit button inside anchor tag isn't a valid HTML5 according to the HTML5 Spec Document from W3C

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Vijay Arun
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