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HTML code inside buttons with simple_form

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I'm new to rails, and just found the simple_form gem. I installed it with bootstrap suport, but now I can't get this code to work the way I want it

%= f.button :submit, " i class='icon-ok icon-white' /i Save", class: "btn btn-primary" %

I just want to put the icon inside the button, but when I do this, it shows me a button with the text ' i class='icon-ok icon-white' /i Save'

I also tried to do

%= f.button :submit, class: "btn btn-primary" do % i class="icon-ok icon-white" /i Save % end %

But with no success. How can I add some HTML inside the button with simple_form gem?

ruby-on-rails ruby twitter-bootstrap simple-form Share Improve this question Follow edited May 6, 2015 at 13:29 Ismael 16.7k 6 6 gold badges 62 62 silver badges 76 76 bronze badges asked Jun 1, 2012 at 23:37 Bruno Campos Bruno Campos 2,188 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges Add a comment |

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Don't use content_tag. The following works:

%= button_tag(type: 'submit', class: "btn btn-primary") do % i class="icon-ok icon-white" /i Save % end % Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 5, 2012 at 14:24 Undistraction Undistraction 43.7k 62 62 gold badges 202 202 silver badges 334 334 bronze badges 8 1 Even if this solution works, I don t like it because I can t see the f variable anymore :( – Cyril Duchon-Doris Commented Nov 23, 2014 at 23:44 1 @CyrilDD Why do you need to see the form builder so badly? All it is is a collection of methods to simplify building a form, using a model or class as reference. A submit button has no need to know about the model s structure like inputs do, so there is actually little reason to use the builder. Unfortunately Rails s handling of most of the view tier is a complete disaster and woefully in need of updating. There are far bigger issues. – Undistraction Commented Nov 24, 2014 at 0:48 I don t need it so badly . It s just tha in my code, I have many %= f.something % and for some reason a %= button_tag % shows up. Somewhat ugly. However, this (may ?) become a real problem for submitting nested forms – Cyril Duchon-Doris Commented Nov 24, 2014 at 0:50 @CyrilDD It s not a problem with nested forms, as you are actually submitting a single form with a single submit button. No matter how nested it is, it s just clever use of a single form. Take a look at the rendered form. You ll see all the nesting is just encoded into the name attributes of the inputs and decoded at the other end. – Undistraction Commented Nov 24, 2014 at 0:52 But what about forms inside forms ? Then we d want to know which form we want to send (though I can t think of any scenario where one would do this maybe if we just want to post a subset of changes ?) – Cyril Duchon-Doris Commented Nov 24, 2014 at 1:05 | Show 3 more comments 27

In simple_form 3.0rc use :button button type (it passes your block to original ActiveView button helper):

%= f.button :button do % i class="icon-save" /i Commit % end %

Or write additional button wrapper.

For additional info look into simple_form/form_builder.rb FormBuilder#button method.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Aug 28, 2013 at 13:14 Bombazook Bombazook 495 4 4 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges 5 Tried it, doesn t work. Writing a button wrapper sounds like a good idea, though. – Andrew Smith Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 13:29 For some reason this only works with :button, and not :submit. I m using 3.1rc2 – Petercopter Commented Sep 25, 2014 at 22:33 When you use button method it passes your block to #{type}_button or #{type} helper. Simple form button helpers doesn t support blocks so using button_button helper that declared as alias_method :button_button, :button we call original method from ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder . With :submit button type it s not possible. Read code of simple_form/form_builder.rb for better explanation. – Bombazook Commented Sep 29, 2014 at 14:41 this works, and should be the actual answer that solves it since it uses simple_form methods. – Andrew Commented Sep 21, 2015 at 19:40 This should be the accepted answer. github.com/plataformatec/simple_form#buttons – Erowlin Commented Aug 4, 2017 at 7:26 Add a comment | 7

I think you can't do it with simple_form. But I have good news for you. You should be fine using rails helper along side with simple form.

just do

button_tag(type: 'submit', class: "btn btn-primary") do content_tag(:i, class: "icon-ok icon-white") "Save" end

Not sure if this works, even the syntax but it should give you a hint

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Nov 7, 2013 at 22:22 answered Jun 2, 2012 at 2:09 Ismael Ismael 16.7k 6 6 gold badges 62 62 silver badges 76 76 bronze badges Add a comment | 1

One line example submit button in Rails with bootstrap btn class:

%= button_tag(type: 'submit', class: "btn btn-primary") do % Save % end % Share Improve this answer Follow answered Feb 17, 2017 at 1:51 jasonleonhard jasonleonhard 13.5k 1 1 gold badge 94 94 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

You can do this with the following code:

= f.button :button, 'Send', data: { disable_with: " i class='fi-heart' /i Sending " }

Note that you want to use f.button instead of f.submit Also note that :button needs to be the first param to f.button

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 25, 2016 at 13:34 stephenmurdoch stephenmurdoch 34.5k 29 29 gold badges 118 118 silver badges 193 193 bronze badges 1 1 Also note that :button needs to be the first param thats solved my problem. i tried using :submit, which didn t work! it didn t parse the text to html, but when i changed to :button it worked perfectly. thanks – Ziv Galili Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 16:14 Add a comment |

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