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buttonTo()

View Helpers Link Functions string controller

Creates a form containing a single button that submits to the URL. The URL is built the same way as the linkTo function.

Name Type Required Default Description
text string No The text content of the button.
image string No If you want to use an image for the button pass in the link to it here (relative from the images folder).
route string No Name of a route that you have configured in config/routes.cfm.
controller string No Name of the controller to include in the URL.
action string No Name of the action to include in the URL.
key any No Key(s) to include in the URL.
params string No Any additional parameters to be set in the query string (example: wheels=cool&x=y). Please note that CFWheels uses the & and = characters to split the parameters and encode them properly for you. However, if you need to pass in & or = as part of the value, then you need to encode them (and only them), example: a=cats%26dogs%3Dtrouble!&b=1.
anchor string No Sets an anchor name to be appended to the path.
method string No The type of method to use in the form tag (delete, get, patch, post, and put are the options).
onlyPath boolean No true If true, returns only the relative URL (no protocol, host name or port).
host string No Set this to override the current host.
protocol string No Set this to override the current protocol.
port numeric No 0 Set this to override the current port number.
encode any No true Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content. 
#buttonTo(text="Delete Account", action="perFormDelete", disable="Wait...")#

<!--- apply attributes to the input element by prefixing any arguments with "input"--->
#buttonTo(text="Edit", action="edit", inputId="edit-button", inputClass="edit-button-class")#

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Link Functions