Rails - Apr 2009 - Overriding html generated for submit_tag and selected links

Hi,

Probably something simple, but I''m trying to change my submit_tag and
other buttons to CSS based buttons based on the article at
http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/how-to-make-sexy-buttons-with-css.html

Basically this needs the following HTML markup:

<a class="button" href="#"><span>Button
Text</span></a>

So, the question is how can I change the generated HTML (or better yet
create a helper) to allow me to spit this out for form actions and
some link_to''s, specifically the inner <span> bit?

Any help would be appreciated as my google-fu has not been strong on
this one. I''m on rails 2.3.2.

Cheers,

Steve

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Hi Steve,

Acutally, there are no way to do it for submit_tag & button_to, those
helpers should be totally rewritten to suport the markup you need. But
if you are building a modern unobtrusive app, then you don''t really
need the functionality of those helpers, so you can just replace them
with a custom helper that just generates the markup you need.

And cusomizing the link_to is quite easy:

def cool_link_to(title, url, options = {})
  options[:class] ||= ''''
  options[:class] += '' button''
  link_to(content_tag(:span, title), url, options)
end

<%= cool_link_to "Edit", ''/edit/123'', :class
=> ''some-other-class''
%>
# => <a href="/edit/123" class="some-other-class
button"><span>Edit</
span></a>

Dmitry