Yii : How to make a button with an html tag inside the label

Question

I'm trying to use some bootstrap features like the Icon glyphs in the Yii CHtml class, here is my code:

<?php 
   echo CHtml::submitButton('<i class="icon-user"></i> Login', 
       array(
           'class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'
       )); 
 ?>

But it kinda don't "recognize" the tag and just renders the tag out like the image bellow .

does anyone knows how to workaround it (without typing the html tags itself).

Thank you guys.

Answer 1

CHtml::submitButton produces an <input type="submit"> that cannot accept additional HTML as its content. However, you can do things to taste with CHtml::tag:

echo CHtml::tag('button',
                array('class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'),
                '<i class="icon-user"></i> Login');

This will produce a <button> tag that can take arbitrary HTML as its content.

Update: As frostyterrier points out in the comments, there's a built-in method CHtml::htmlButton that allows you to do this even more easily:

echo CHtml::htmlButton('<i class="icon-user"></i> Login',
                       array('class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'));

Answer 2

Try to set 'encode' to false in htmlOptions parameter.

<?php
    echo CHtml::submitButton('<i class="icon-user"></i> Login',
        array(
            'encode' => false,
            'class' => 'btn btn-large pull-right'
        ));
?>