ActionButton instead of ActionLink

Question

I want to create a button which when clicked calls an action. I have used Html.ActionLink to create a link which does exactly that but there is no Html.ActionButton. Is there some other way?

Answer 1

Here is an example using Bootstrap's CSS button and applying it against the link to make it look exactly like the button.

@Html.ActionLink("Select", "Select", new { id = patient.Id }, new { @class = "btn btn-primary", @style = "color:white" }) 

Answer 2

Is there some other way?

You could use a html <form>:

@using (Html.BeginForm("someAction", "someController")) {     <button type="submit">OK</button> }