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

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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   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>"));

SyntaxGoonoo · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-16 04:12:25Z

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You just include the extra  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));

answered May 16, 2014 at 4:12

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Praveen kalal · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-24 04:41:44Z

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Please try below code.

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

answered Dec 24, 2012 at 4:41

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SyntaxGoonoo Over a year ago

it is possible, see my answer below

keyser · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-26 09:59:31Z

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see this

echo $this->Form->button('Search', array('type' => 'submit','id' => 'search_button','class' => 'searchbutton','escape' => true, 'after' => ""));

edited May 26, 2014 at 9:59

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answered May 26, 2014 at 9:39

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