How to incorporate a g:link into an ordinary button?

Question

I'm working on a grails application and I've kept looking for some solution to my problem for the past 15minutes - I guess, there's an pretty simple solution to this...

The point is, I have a view where I have a g:link tag - it works fine, but the visuals are kind of ugly. Therefore I want to disguise that g:link thingy with a normal button....

Ive tried a span class and input type="button" but this did not do the trick. A g:form with some action and a action submit is not really what I'm looking for.

Any help is really appreciated!

Answer 1

I think you'll need to use some javascript on the button and the javascript onClick method to perform the linking. A good alternative is to make a nice looking image instead.

If you want to avoid javascript then just use a form with method GET

Not really grails specific but you can probably do it quite easily with g:form somehow (I'm only just getting started with Grails myself)

EDIT: Re-reading your post, the most important thing to note is that I used input type="submit" which calls the action field in the form rather than just being a button.

Answer 2

g:link tag does nothing but at the end creates the anchor tag. So anything that you can put inside anchor tag, so with g:link.

You can simply write. <g:link class="create" action="create"><input type="button" /></g:link>

It appears to be a button to user but does the job of g:link tag.

Answer 3

I think using the link and button will actually cause the button to fire twice !! Not recomended if you are doing some work off the back of it ..