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Blake
Blake

Reputation: 2397

Add css class to rails link_to helper

I'm trying to style a rails link using css using the following code: 

<%= link_to "Learn More", :controller => "menus", :action => "index", :class => "btn btn-inverse" %>

I would expect that this would create a link that looks like this: 

<a href="menus/" class="btn btn-inverse">Learn More</a>

Instead, rails is rendering this - 

<a href="/menus?class=btn+btn-inverse">Learn More</a>

Has anyone else had this problem / know what I'm doing wrong? I know I can avoid this problem by manually creating the anchor tag rather than using helper, but I was wondering if there was a way to pass the css class info to the helper itself. I'm using Rails 3.2.6.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 79

Views: 123782

Answers (5)

SMAG
SMAG

Reputation: 818

if you do not have a controller action / route necessary for the link, you can pass nil as the placeholder and get the classes to apply as necessary

<%= link_to 'link verbiage', nil,  class: 'classes for action tag'%>

Upvotes: 3

d1jhoni1b
d1jhoni1b

Reputation: 8065

This is how i solved it using another view engine, HAML just in case a fellow developer is having this need

%i= link_to "Add New Blog Post", user_post_edit_new_url(current_user), :class  => "fa fa-plus-circle"

Upvotes: 0

Kamesh Prasad
Kamesh Prasad

Reputation: 69

Try new argument convention:

<%= link_to 'Learn More', 'menus#index', class: 'btn btn-inverse' %>

Upvotes: 5

Caetano
Caetano

Reputation: 1

I solved my problem by the way 

<%= link_to image_tag("imageexamplo.png", class: 'class or id examplo css'),{controller: "user" , action: "index"}%>

Upvotes: 0

MrYoshiji
MrYoshiji

Reputation: 54902

You have a syntax problem. Try this instead:

<%= link_to "Learn More", {controller: "menus", action: "index"}, class: "btn btn-inverse" %>

Some documentation for you to go further with the link_to Helper

They say:

Be careful when using the older argument style, as an extra literal hash is needed:

link_to "Articles", { :controller => "articles" }, :id => "news", :class => "article"
# => <a href="/articles" class="article" id="news">Articles</a>

Leaving the hash off gives the wrong link:

link_to "WRONG!", :controller => "articles", :id => "news", :class => "article"
# => <a href="/articles/index/news?class=article">WRONG!</a>

I recommend you to use the URL helper generated following your routes configuration. In your case:

link_to "Learn More", menus_path, :class => "btn btn-inverse"

A little reminder on the Helpers generated:

# routes.rb
resources :users

# any view/controller
users_path #=> /users
edit_user_path(user) #=> /users/:id/edit
user_path(user) #=> /users/:id  (show action)
new_user_path(user) #=> /users/new

Upvotes: 143

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