Add html element inside of form element using cake php form helper

Questions

I am trying to create a simple html output that looks like this

<button class="searchbutton" id="search_button" type="submit">-->
      <i class="icon-search"></i> Search</button>

with Cake php s form helper, i cant figure out why the after attribute doesn t add the inner <i> </i> html element.

This is what i have tried.

  echo $this->Form->button( Search , array( type  =>  submit , id  =>  search_button , class  =>  searchbutton ,
         after  => "<i class= icon-search ></i>"));

Answers

You just include the extra <i></i> tag in the button $title, also include escape => false to ensure the mark up is not escaped, even though is not escaped by default as on v3.1.1, this may change in future, who knows..

Example:

echo $this->Form->button("<i class= icon-search ></i> Search", array( type  =>  submit , id  =>  search_button ,  class  =>  searchbutton ,  escape  => false));

Source

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14016966/add-html-element-inside-of-form-element-using-cake-php-form-helper

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