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What is ActionButton in mvc?

Royce Roy204708-Oct-2014
Has anyone written one? I want it to behave like a link but look like a button. A form with a single button wont do it has I don't want any POST.
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Updated on 08-Oct-2014
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Anonymous User

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08-Oct-2014

Submit button:


<formmethod="get"action="/myController/myAction/">
    <inputtype="submit"value="button text goes here"/>
</form>

In response to cdmckay's answer, here's an alternative code that uses the TagBuilder class instead of a regular StringBuilder to build the form, mostly for clarity.

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
using System.Web.Routing;
 
namespace MvcApplication1
{
    publicstaticclassHtmlExtensions
    {
        publicstaticstring ActionButton(thisHtmlHelper helper, string value,
                              string action, string controller, object routeValues)
        {
            var a = (newUrlHelper(helper.ViewContext.RequestContext))
                        .Action(action, controller, routeValues);
 
            var form = newTagBuilder("form");
            form.Attributes.Add("method", "get");
            form.Attributes.Add("action", a);
 
            var input = newTagBuilder("input");
            input.Attributes.Add("type", "submit");
            input.Attributes.Add("value", value);
 
            form.InnerHtml = input.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);
 
            return form.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
        }
    }
}

 I am aware that there might be quite a lot of overhead in this code, but I am expecting that you won't need to run it a lot of times on each page. In case you do, there is probably a bunch of optimizations that you could do.

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