Creating a Link Text like Submit Button in Admin Page

Question

I'm making an admin page for my plugin and I'd like to make a text link designed like the form button of admin pages.

I tried this but didn't work well.

<a href="" cless="button-primary" style="line-height: 2em; border-color: #298CBA; font-weight: bold; color: white; background: #21759B url(../images/button-grad.png) repeat-x scroll left top; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0 -1px 0;">Submit</a>

I also tried just putting a submit button, expecting that the page goes to the url in the action attribute.

<form action="$url" target="_self">
    <input type="submit" class="button-primary" value="Submit" />
</form>

Does anybody know how?

Answer 1

You can style a link as a button with the button css class:

<a href="#" class="button">I am a button</a>

You can modify a button with the primary styling by adding button-primary:

<a href="#" class="button button-primary">I am the primary button</a>

Answer 2

This worked,

<?php 
$pageslug = 'the-plugin-option-page-slug';
?>
    <form method="post" action="?page=<?php echo $pageslug; ?>&tab=2">
        <input type="submit" class="button-primary" value="Submit" />       
    </form>
<?php

I have tabbed option pages and the button just works like a link to the tab 2 page without submitting anything.