Why does this button submit the form?

programming web dev
1

Consider this snippet.

<form>
  <button>Save draft</button>
</form>

Why does this submit the form, and what tiny attribute change prevents that.

BobaMilk

2

<button> inside a form defaults to type="submit", so make it <button type="button">Save draft</button> if it should just open a draft action.

BayMax