I've spent most of the day chasing my tail on this. There are many wonderful suggestions out there, but none that address all my problems:

We have an existing website, where someone's linked button href's to absolute addresses, and I am trying to figure out a way to do that. I've got most of it, but one line with a styled button and formaction just won't work. The original code is like this:

```
@using(Html.BeginForm(null,null,FormMethod.Post))
{
   // ... a <div>, then a stack of buttons, that I've converted to
   // <a href="@Url.Action(.... and those buttons work

   <button class="submit" id="Save" value="Save" formaction="Model/Action" class="btn btn-primary"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-floppy-save"></span></button>

    // ... a stack of more buttons and checkboxes, that are all working...
}...

```

I need to retain the glyphicon as the button image, and the formaction when the button is clicked. 

If I change the button to an `<input>`, I lose the `<span>` and hence the glyphicon. 

If I call an `@Url.Action()` in the button, like this:

```
<button type="submit" onclick="location.href='@Url.Action("Action","Model")'" class="btn.... etc.

```

It doesn't seem to submit anything in the post. If I specify the Action and Model in the BeginForm(), I get a resource not found, because it's trying to find the View, instead of just the action...

So, what *is* the proper way to change this button with the absolute link into an ASP.NET MVC something, that will fire the action in the controller **and** is stylable as a button with a glyphicon as image?