Question

How do I create a submit action in form not by a button (with submit_tag) and not by an image (image_submit_tag)?

I’d like the submit to be clickable text like a link

Thanks

Answer 1

You would need to do that with javascript, since links are a GET request, not a post request. So let’s say you have the following code:

<%= form_for @post, :html => { :id => 'form' } do |f| %>
  <div class="field">
    <%= f.label :title %>
    <%= f.text_field :title %>
  </div>
  <div class="field">
    <%= f.label :body %>
    <%= f.text_area :body %>
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <a id="submit">Submit</a>
  </div>
<% end %>

You then need to add the following to one of your javascript files. If you’re using < Rails 3.1, just simply add this to your application.js. If you’re using Rails 3.1, add it to one of the js files in assets/javascripts directory.

$(function() {
  $('#submit').click(function() {
    $('#form').submit();
  });
});

That said, you can pass the method option into a link_to method call, to use POST. However, just doing that without javascript will not submit any of the form data. So you would either have to do the above, or use javascript to add the data to the url like you would in a query string.