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tpei
tpei

Reputation: 681

cakePHP form button without submit

I got these buttons inside a form which I want to NOT trigger a submit, they are simple html buttons

<?php echo $this->Form->create('Point'); ?>
...
<button class="btn">text</button> => this one shouldn't trigger a submit
...
<?php echo $this->Form->end(array('label' => 'add', 'div' => false, 'escape' => false, 'class' => 'btn btn-default btn-block')); ?>

however cakephp always handles these as submits, just as the regular form end buttons. Any way to prevent this?

I tried using jquery

$('.btn').click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
});

But that won't work either.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4512

Answers (3)

Ashutosh Singh
Ashutosh Singh

Reputation: 56

Check It...

$('.btn').live('click', function(e){
    e.preventDefault();

    return false;
});

OR

$('.btn').on('click', function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
});

Upvotes: 0

ssergei
ssergei

Reputation: 1299

Use 

<button type="button" class="btn">text</button>

instead.

The default type for button is submit.

Upvotes: 2

Nunser
Nunser

Reputation: 4522

You could just create simple button instead of a submit button. If you put arguments inside $this->Form-end() you'll get a submit button by default. But you could easily add extra buttons (with no function attached by default) and end the Form without a submit button.

Something like this should do

echo $this->Form->button('A button', 
                         array('class' => 'btn'));
echo $this->Form->end();

Also, check other type of action-trigger buttons, like postButton and postLink, meybe those fit better for what you want to do instead of preventing default functions of buttons.

Upvotes: 1

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