Mvc Html.ActionButton

Question

Has anyone written one? I want it to behave like a link but look like a button. A form with a single button wont do it has I don\'t want any POST.

Answer 1

If you want it to behave like a link but "look" like a button just use the ActionLink with a CSS Class.

<%: Html.ActionLink("Back", "Index", null, new { @class = "link-button" })%>

Here is the CSS for a Button that I am using.

.link-button {
    -moz-border-radius:0.333em 0.333em 0.333em 0.333em;
    -moz-box-shadow:0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
    background:-moz-linear-gradient(center top , white, #306AB5 4%, #274976) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    border-color:#306AB5 #2B5892 #274771;
    border-style:solid;
    border-width:1px;
    color:white;
    cursor:pointer;
    display:inline-block;
    font-size:1.167em;
    font-weight:bold;
    line-height:1.429em;
    padding:0.286em 1em 0.357em;
    text-shadow:0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}


.link-button {
    color: white;
    border-color: #a1a7ae #909498 #6b7076;
    background: #9fa7b0 url(../images/old-browsers-bg/button-element-grey-bg.png) repeat-x top;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(
        top,
        white,
        #c5cbce 5%,
        #9fa7b0
    );
    background: -webkit-gradient(
        linear,
        left top, left bottom,
        from(white),
        to(#9fa7b0),
        color-stop(0.05, #c5cbce)
    );
    -moz-text-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
    -webkit-text-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
    text-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    }
    .link-button:hover {
        border-color: #a1a7b0 #939798 #6e7275;
        background: #b1b5ba url(../images/old-browsers-bg/button-element-grey-hover-bg.png) repeat-x top;
        background: -moz-linear-gradient(
            top,
            white,
            #d6dadc 4%,
            #b1b5ba
        );
        background: -webkit-gradient(
            linear,
            left top, left bottom,
            from(white),
            to(#b1b5ba),
            color-stop(0.03, #d6dadc)
        );
    }
    .link-button:active {
        border-color: #666666 #ffffff #ffffff #979898;
        background: #ffffdffffd url(../images/old-browsers-bg/button-element-grey-active-bg.png) repeat-x top;
        background: -moz-linear-gradient(
            top,
            #f1f1f1,
            #ffffdffffd
        );
        background: -webkit-gradient(
            linear,
            left top, left bottom,
            from(#f1f1f1),
            to(#ffffdffffd)
        );
    }