I wish to have 2 submit buttons one which does a normal sumbit and the other that does a submit but also passes the parameters such as "render_action" . This doesnt work <%= start_form_tag :action => ''list'' %> <%= image_submit_tag("find.gif", :alt => "Find and Display", :border => 0) %> <%= link_to image_tag("excel.gif", :alt => "Find and Download to Excel", :border => 0), {:action => ''list'' , :render_action => ''excel'', :popup => true }%> Include deleted <%= check_box_tag ("include_deleted", value="1" ) <%= end_form_tag %> The reason is that the user can enter some checkbox infomation such as "include deleted" . So when the user hits the excel link the list controller is called but the include_deleted check box is lost. Sorry I cannot think of a solution. I know it must be reasonably simple -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.