How to prevent a newline after a button_to

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How do you prevent a newline after a button_to.

I thought <%= button_to blabla -%> was meant to do it, but it didn’t I
think I got it generated

tags around the button code.

How do you do it?

thanks

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On Jan 29, 4:27 am, bingo bob [email protected]
wrote:

How do you prevent a newline after a button_to.

I thought <%= button_to blabla -%> was meant to do it, but it didn’t I
think I got it generated

tags around the button code.

How do you do it?

This is something that gets tossed around from time to time. The
official (barely) agreed upon stance is:

"The div is for HTML4.01/XHTML1.0 strict compliance. An input can only
be contained by one of “p”, “h1”, “h2”, “h3”, “h4”, “h5”, “h6”, “div”,
“pre”, “address”, “fieldset”, “ins” or “del”. " [
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10422
]

But this annoys me too. There are a few ways of handling this.
button_to creates a form tag with a class of “button_to”. So in your
stylesheet, you should be able to do something
with .button_to .form .div and remove the spacing. (I haven’t tried
this myself yet, and I’m not a css whiz, so YMMV).

If you care less about strict compliance, and want to get rid of the
div tags totally, then the following in you application.rb will work:

module Helpers
module UrlHelper
def button_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil)

    html_options = (html_options || {}).stringify_keys
    convert_boolean_attributes!(html_options, %w( disabled ))

    if confirm = html_options.delete("confirm")
      html_options["onclick"] = "return #

{confirm_javascript_function(confirm)};"
end
options = {:only_path=>false}.update(options)
url = options.is_a?(String) ? options : url_for(options)
name ||= url

    html_options.symbolize_keys!
    tag(:input, html_options.merge({
      :type => "button", :value => name,
      :onclick => (html_options[:onclick] ? "#{html_options

[:onclick]}; " : “”) + “window.location.href=‘#{url_for(options)}’;”
}))

  end
end

end