Question

simple normal form that’s submitting an action.

<form id="myAppSearchForm" method="get" action="<%= search_path %>">
    <fieldset>
        <div class="input-inside-label">
            <label for="myAppSearchForm_searchstring">Search weavr</label>
            <input id="myAppSearchForm_searchstring" name="search" class="search" title="enter search term" />
        </div>
        <button class="btn" name="myAppSearchFormSubmit" type="submit">GO</button>
    </fieldset>
</form>

however I don’t get why the ID or name attribute of the Submitbutton gets added to the query string?

Like so: myurl/search?search=test&myAppSearchFormSubmit=

Any idea why that could happen?

Answer 1

That’s just how forms work. Drop the name attribute and the value of that button won’t be included in the params for the form submission.