What is ActionButton in mvc?

Royce Roy 2375 08 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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Anonymous User 08 Oct 2014

Submit button:


<form method="get" action="/myController/myAction/">
    <input type="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
{
    public static class HtmlExtensions
    {
        public static string ActionButton(this HtmlHelper helper, string value,
                              string action, string controller, object routeValues)
        {
            var a = (new UrlHelper(helper.ViewContext.RequestContext))
                        .Action(action, controller, routeValues);
 
            var form = new TagBuilder("form");
            form.Attributes.Add("method", "get");
            form.Attributes.Add("action", a);
 
            var input = new TagBuilder("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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