Currently, a spring application I am working on has several wizards that it is using with Spring’s AbstractWizardFormController. During the early stages of development(pre-design phase), the type of “next” button did not matter.
Just to refresh, the Next and Back button are submit buttons with target attributes. So a next button on the first page of a wizard would look like the following.
<input type="submit" name="_target1" value="Next"/>
This is the standard way Spring does wizards on the view. This works fine, given that you want your Next button to be a standard HTML submit button. Otherwise, in my case, If I want a custom button, I am not sure how to do this. I know it is possible, but haven’t found any documentation.
I imagine I will need to do a javascript submit, but I am not sure how to set the name of the button, of if something else needs to be done.
I just need to know how I can still extend AbstractWizardFormController, and use custom buttons.
When clicked, HTML submit button submits a form with additional parameter
{name}={value}, that is_target1=Next. I guess the value doesn’t matter here, controller looks at the name. So, if you want to emulate this with Javascript, you may, for example, dynamically add a hidden field withname = "_target1"before submit.