buttonTo()

Signature

buttonTo() — returns string

Available in: controller Category: Link Functions

Description

Creates a form containing a single button that submits to a URL. The URL is constructed the same way as linkTo(). This helper is useful when you want a button that performs a specific action (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) without manually creating a form.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
text	string	no	—	The text content of the button.
image	string	no	—	If you want to use an image for the button pass in the link to it here (relative from the images folder).
route	string	no	—	Name of a route that you have configured in config/routes.cfm.
controller	string	no	—	Name of the controller to include in the URL.
action	string	no	—	Name of the action to include in the URL.
key	any	no	—	Key(s) to include in the URL.
params	string	no	—	Any additional parameters to be set in the query string (example: wheels=cool&x=y). Please note that Wheels uses the & and = characters to split the parameters and encode them properly for you. However, if you need to pass in & or = as part of the value, then you need to encode them (and only them), example: a=cats%26dogs%3Dtrouble!&b=1.
anchor	string	no	—	Sets an anchor name to be appended to the path.
method	string	no	—	The type of method to use in the form tag (delete, get, patch, post, and put are the options).
onlyPath	boolean	no	true	If true, returns only the relative URL (no protocol, host name or port).
host	string	no	—	Set this to override the current host.
protocol	string	no	—	Set this to override the current protocol.
port	numeric	no	0	Set this to override the current port number.
encode	any	no	true	Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.

Examples

1. Basic button submitting to an action
#buttonTo(text="Delete Account", action="performDelete", disable="Wait...")#

2. Button with an ID and class applied to the input
#buttonTo(text="Edit", action="edit", inputId="edit-button", inputClass="edit-button-class")#

3. Button using an image instead of text
#buttonTo(image="delete-icon.png", action="delete")#

4. Button linking to a specific route with query parameters
#buttonTo(text="View Report", route="reportRoute", params="year=2025&month=9")#

5. Button using DELETE method
#buttonTo(text="Remove", action="deleteItem", method="delete")#