CHtml Button

CHtml is a static class and it is used to generate a button.

public static string button(string $label='button', array $htmlOptions=array ( ))

CHtml class used in CFormButtonElement to represents a form button element.
CFormButtonElement have the 8 types of button types. The types are htmlButton, button, submitButton, imageButton, resetButton and link button.

htmlButton: Type-button

<?php
echo CHtml::htmlButton('HTML BUTTON',array(
                "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
                "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass')
                );
?>

Output

<button type="button" name="yt0" 
                class="chtmlbuttonclass"
                id="chtmlbutton">HTML BUTTON</button>

htmlButton: Type-submit

<?php
echo CHtml::htmlButton('HTML SUBMIT BUTTON',array(
                "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
                "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<button type="button" name="yt1" 
                class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
                id="chtmlbutton">HTML SUBMIT BUTTON</button>

htmlButton: Type-reset

<?php
echo CHtml::htmlButton('HTML RESET BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass')
        );
?>

Output

<button type="button" name="yt2" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">HTML RESET BUTTON</button>

button: Type-button

<?php
echo CHtml::button('NORMAL BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<input type="button" value="NORMAL BUTTON" 
            name="yt3" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">

<

button: Type-submit

<?php
echo CHtml::button('NORMAL SUBMIT BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<input type="button" value="NORMAL SUBMIT BUTTON" 
            name="yt4" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">

button: Type-reset

<?php
echo CHtml::button('NORMAL RESET BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<input type="button" value="NORMAL RESET BUTTON" 
            name="yt5" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">

submitButton

<?php
echo CHtml::submitButton('SUBMIT BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<input type="submit" value="SUBMIT BUTTON" 
            name="yt6" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">

imageButton

<?php
echo CHtml::imageButton(
            Yii::app()->createAbsoluteUrl("/")."/../images/bg-menu-item-green.gif",
            array("style='border:1px solid;'")
        );
?>

Output

<input type="image" value="submit" name="yt7" 
            src="http://127.0.0.1/blog/index.php/../images/bg-menu-item-green.gif" 
            style='border:1px solid;'>

resetButton

<?php
echo CHtml::resetButton('RESET BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass')
            );
?>

Output

<input type="reset" value="RESET BUTTON" 
            name="yt8" 
            class="chtmlbuttonclass" 
            id="chtmlbutton">

linkButton

<?php
echo CHtml::linkButton('LINK BUTTON',array(
            "id"=>'chtmlbutton',
            "class"=>'chtmlbuttonclass'));
?>

Output

<a href="#" class="chtmlbuttonclass" id="chtmlbutton">LINK BUTTON</a>