# IMDb search button says...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 15, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041 "2007-01-15T07:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/1 "2007-01-15T07:02:44Z")
Go to [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com). The search box is at the top of the screen. What does it say on the button? To me it looks like… Sut. Yeah, “Sut.” That makes no sense to me. Can anyone explain it? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/2 "2007-01-15T07:10:34Z")
Looks like it says “Go”, to me. Or have I the wrong button? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/3 "2007-01-15T07:16:18Z")
What the hell; how’d you get “Sut” our of “Go”? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/4 "2007-01-15T07:17:22Z")
Anywhere I could post a screen shot? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/5 "2007-01-15T07:18:01Z")
I see “go” ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/6 "2007-01-15T07:24:19Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Anywhere I could post a screen shot? [/QUOTE] Try loading something on Image Shack, Photobucket etc. and posting the link. I’d be interested in seeing this. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/7 "2007-01-15T07:45:31Z")
[http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/7/1/15/f\_Picture1i\_9d20m\_2d9d7970.png](http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?srv=img02&img=/7/1/15/f_Picture1i_9d20m_2d9d7970.png) OK, please try the above. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/8 "2007-01-15T07:52:02Z")
That is genuinely weird. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/9 "2007-01-15T07:54:37Z")
Yeah, ain’t it?! SUT?! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/10 "2007-01-15T07:54:56Z")
And … [you’re not alone,](http://www.applecider.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=2479) **Aeschines**. What’s your browser? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/11 "2007-01-15T07:56:05Z")
Safari for Panther. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/12 "2007-01-15T07:59:36Z")
The real experts around here might come up with something, especially those usin’ Safari. Might be some kind of coding tweak on the IMDB site that only Safari is picking up. But – hey. You are definitely _not_ seeing things. You now know that “sut” means “go”, at least! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/13 "2007-01-15T08:03:17Z")
My guess is that you are getting an international version of that button and that button only, but a) I don’t know why b) I have no idea what language would have a “Go” button that says “Sut”. Welsh? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/14 "2007-01-15T08:09:09Z")
It’s a CSS glitch The submit control is given an id attribute with a value of “nb15go”, which is used by the stylesheet at [http://i.imdb.com/images/nb15/nb15.css](http://i.imdb.com/images/nb15/nb15.css) which sets the background image to “go.gif”, the little go button that you see. However, it also sets the background color to “transparent”, which I don’t think is standard or universal. So your browser is ignoring the whole background rule and making it look like the default appearance of a submit button. That’s not “Sut”, it’s “Submit Query” cut off halfway through the loop of the “b”. ---
**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/15 "2007-01-15T08:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] That’s not “Sut”, it’s “Submit Query” cut off halfway through the loop of the “b”. [/QUOTE] …and I just wasted fifteen minutes of my life trying to find a language where “Sut” would be a valid caption for a “Go” button. I should’ve seen that it was the default Apple button… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/16 "2007-01-15T08:15:13Z")
Has to mean a gold star for **scotandrsn**. I’d have wondered about this for ages! Brilliant answer. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/17 "2007-01-15T08:30:06Z")
It’s extremely tweaked styling. There’s got to be other ways to accomplish the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/18 "2007-01-15T09:49:26Z")
Shoot. I thought you’d press the button and it’d play [The Hut Sut Song](http://www.archive.org/details/soundie_1). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/19 "2007-01-15T15:02:58Z")
Thanks! That was driving me bananas for a long while. I always read it as “Sul,” though. Nothing we can do about it? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041/20 "2007-01-15T15:26:15Z")
[QUOTE=Ellis Aponte Jr.] Thanks! That was driving me bananas for a long while. I always read it as “Sul,” though. Nothing we can do about it? [/QUOTE] Don’t use Safari. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-search-button-says/388041.md?page=2)