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# submit

Please make sure you have read the Tag Syntax document and understand how tag attribute syntax works.

## Description

Render a submit button. The submit tag is used together with the form tag to provide asynchronous form submissions.

The submit can have three different types of rendering:

- `input`: renders as html `<input type="submit"...>`
- `image`: renders as html `<input type="image"...>`
- `button`: renders as html `<button type="submit"...>`

Please note that the button type has advantages by adding the possibility to seperate the submitted value from the text shown on the button face, but has issues with Microsoft Internet Explorer at least up to 6.0.

> To use method attribute (to use multiple submit buttons which direct to different action methods) you must set struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation to true but this can lead to security vulnerability^[http://www.brucephillips.name/blog/index.cfm/2011/2/19/Struts-2-Security-Vulnerability–Dynamic-Method-Invocation]

> - use with care! Instead you can try to use Multiple Submit Buttons] solution.

Render a submit button

## Attributes

#### Dynamic Attributes Allowed: true
#### Name | #### Required | #### Default | #### Evaluated | #### Type | #### Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
accesskey | false |  | false | String | Set the html accesskey attribute on rendered html element
action | false |  | false | String | Set action attribute.
class | false |  | false | String | (Deprecated) The css class to use for element - it's an alias of cssClass attribute.
cssClass | false |  | false | String | The css class to use for element
cssErrorClass | false |  | false | String | The css error class to use for element
cssErrorStyle | false |  | false | String | The css error style definitions for element to use
cssStyle | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use
disabled | false |  | false | String | Set the html disabled attribute on rendered html element
errorPosition | false |  | false | String | Define error position of form element (top|bottom)
escapeHtmlBody | false | true | false | Boolean | Specifies whether to HTML-escape the tag body or not
id | false |  | false | String | HTML id attribute
javascriptTooltip | false | false | false | Boolean | Use JavaScript to generate tooltips
key | false |  | false | String | Set the key (name, value, label) for this particular component
label | false |  | false | String | Label expression used for rendering an element specific label
labelPosition | false |  | false | String | Define label position of form element (top/left)
labelSeparator | false | : | false | String | String that will be appended to the label
labelposition | false |  | false | String | (Deprecated) Define label position of form element (top/left)
method | false |  | false | String | Set method attribute.
name | false |  | false | String | The name to set for element
onblur | false |  | false | String | Set the html onblur attribute on rendered html element
onchange | false |  | false | String | Set the html onchange attribute on rendered html element
onclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html onclick attribute on rendered html element
ondblclick | false |  | false | String | Set the html ondblclick attribute on rendered html element
onfocus | false |  | false | String | Set the html onfocus attribute on rendered html element
onkeydown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeydown attribute on rendered html element
onkeypress | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeypress attribute on rendered html element
onkeyup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onkeyup attribute on rendered html element
onmousedown | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousedown attribute on rendered html element
onmousemove | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmousemove attribute on rendered html element
onmouseout | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseout attribute on rendered html element
onmouseover | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseover attribute on rendered html element
onmouseup | false |  | false | String | Set the html onmouseup attribute on rendered html element
onselect | false |  | false | String | Set the html onselect attribute on rendered html element
openTemplate | false |  | false | String | Set template to use for opening the rendered html.
performClearTagStateForTagPoolingServers | false | false | false | Boolean | Whether to clear all tag state during doEndTag() processing (if applicable)
requiredLabel | false | false | false | Boolean | If set to true, the rendered element will indicate that input is required
requiredPosition | false |  | false | String | Define required position of required form element (left|right)
src | false |  | false | String | Supply an image src for image type submit button. Will have no effect for types input and button.
style | false |  | false | String | The css style definitions for element to use - it's an alias of cssStyle attribute.
tabindex | false |  | false | String | Set the html tabindex attribute on rendered html element
template | false |  | false | String | The template (other than default) to use for rendering the element
templateDir | false |  | false | String | The template directory.
theme | false |  | false | String | The theme (other than default) to use for rendering the element
title | false |  | false | String | Set the html title attribute on rendered html element
tooltip | false |  | false | String | Set the tooltip of this particular component
tooltipConfig | false |  | false | String | Deprecated. Use individual tooltip configuration attributes instead.
tooltipCssClass | false | StrutsTTClassic | false | String | CSS class applied to JavaScrip tooltips
tooltipDelay | false | Classic | false | String | Delay in milliseconds, before showing JavaScript tooltips
tooltipIconPath | false |  | false | String | Icon path used for image that will have the tooltip
type | false | input | false | String | The type of submit to use. Valid values are input, button and image.
value | false |  | false | String | Preset the value of input element.