Neither s:link nor s:button giving correct results with onclick

[daxxy]

I am tearing my hair out over what I think must be a simple problem.

I'm trying to add a button that, when you click it, takes you to an external web page. I think this is the HTML I want, but I can't figure out how to get Seam to render this HTML:

<button onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'" type="button">SMC</button>

I would simply use the HTML, but I want the button to match all the others.  And anyway, this should work, right??

I have tried
<s:button> and <s:link> and the code is never rendered correctly.

Here is the rendering of the s:link :

<a href="/newOnd/ONDResultPage.seam" onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'">SMC</a>

Here is the rendering of the s:button:

<input onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'; location.href='/newOnd/ONDResultPage.seam; return false;" value="SMC" type="button" />

I have seen a previous forum posting advising people to stay away from s:button and style your s:link as a button. Fine. I'm happy to do that. But s:link isn't working either!  Argh. This is making me nuts.

Using the latest and greatest Seam.

TDR

[sherkan777]

Hi,
Why do you want to use s:button if u can do all u want by

<button...>

without changing your code, also with conversation support.

[swd847]

what happens if you put a return false after your location.href?

[daxxy]

Why don't I just use the button tag?  Um, I guess because I wanted the button to be styled like the other buttons and I didn't know how to do it otherwise.  However, I really cannot get anything else to work so I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to style it to look like the others.

I added return false after my location.href and still it did not work.  The button tag also did not work with it.

I just realized I forgot to include in my original posting the code I tried.  I must have deleted it accidentally.

Here it is FWIW:

<button onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'" type="button" >SMC</button>
<s:button value="SMC" onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'" />
<s:link  value="SMC" onclick="location.href='http://smc.ba.ssa.gov'" />

[daxxy]

I realized I needed conditional rendering so here is what I finally decided on:

<h:outputLink rendered="#{_device.smc}"
                                             value="http://smc.ba.ssa.gov">
                                             <button type="button">SMC</button>
                                        </h:outputLink>

I still need to figure out how to style the button to look like a richfaces component.