Make a link behave like a form submit button

Rails
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Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to have a link that behaves like a
form submit button? I’ve tried using a link_to with a post method, but
it does not perform the same action as a form submit. The action
specified in the link_to is called, by the parameters from the form
are not populating params.

Is this possible? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Diego

2

It’s possible, but you’ll have to submit using javascript.

For example:

<%= link_to_function ‘Submit’, “$(‘my_form_id’).submit(0)” -%>

3

Hi Grejan,

That worked perfectly. Thank you.

Regards.

On Oct 24, 10:53 pm, Gerjan S. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

4

Hi Diego,

I want to know what kind of form you had used? Is it form, form_for,
form_remote_tag or something else. As you see I am a beginner and had
tried to give my form_for an id but it didnt work.

I really hope that you could help me.

Thank you,
fries88