Wed Dec 05 18:15:00 UTC 2007

rails inserts heinous html sometimes

Posted at 06:15 PM by matt

Using button_to in rails inserts unnecessary div tags into your html and i recommend using the following override code in your application helper.



  def button_to(value, link, options={})
    if not options.empty?
      return super(value, link, options)
    end
    return "<input type=\"button\" value=\"#{value}\" onclick=\"location.href='#{url_for(link)}'\"/>"
  end


That way you get clean return values like



<input value="Submit" onclick="http://yoururl.com" />

rather than getting:


<div> <form method="post" action="http://yoururl.com" class="button-to"><div><input type="submit" value="Publish it" /></div></form> </div>
However this doesn't solve the method post problem

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