There is exactly ONE reason why the submit button might not appear on your page: You have banner ad-removal software installed, and it has mistaken our submit button for a banner ad.

"Submit" buttons come in two varieties: Those that are actual clickable buttons, and those that are images posing as buttons. We prefer to use the latter variety because it gives us more control of the aesthetic quality of our website (historically speaking, the non-image buttons rendered by Microsoft Internet Explorer have been nothing less than totally hideous, and we won't stand for them).

Unfortunately, the image-style buttons do occasionally get mistaken for banner ads for whatever reason (poorly written software, perhaps?), and we become the unwitting victims of a false accusation. Luckily, there is something you can do about it: You own the software, so you have the ability to disable it.

This is not meant to be a tutorial on how to manage your own software (and if it were, it would be several dozen pages long, considering the abundance of different banner ad blocking software on the market today). But suffice it to say that it is typically very easy to temporarily disable software, and just as easy to reinstate if you choose to do so after completing whatever tasks you need to on our website.

In fact, most software allows you to specify which websites you'd like to have as exceptions to the rule (known as a "white list"). Add ballroomdancers.com to your "white list", and you won't have to disable the banner ad blocking software. Of course, doing so will subject you to one banner ad at the top of the page, but these aren't pop-up ads, folks. They're just regular, static images embedded on the web page, and you don't even have to look at them.

But if you're strictly morally opposed to all advertising, even the most benign vareity that, by the way, keeps us in business, there is one other possible work-around. Believe it or not, forms can actually be submitted without a "submit" button. After filling out the form, leave the cursor in one of the text fields, and click your "enter" (or "return") key. Many browsers respond by submitting the form, as though you had clicked the button. Very convenient.

One caveat: The text field you use must be a single-line text field. When you have your cursor in a multi-line text box, hitting the "enter" key will register as a carriage return, and simply advance the cursor to the next line. Realize that you can submit the form from any one-line text field -- It doesn't have to be the last one on the form -- So if the last text box on the form is multi-line, just click in another text field anywhere else on the form, and you'll still be able to submit the form.

If after reading this help article you still have questions, please direct them to the message board at https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Message_Board/.

Regards,
Jonathan Atkinson
www.ballroomdancers.com