It work as a submit button and will associate the form with your button.If you want to use simple button, i suggest you to go with <input type=button/>
As a side note the best place to ask such question is user mailing list <* u...@struts.apache.org*> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Shrinivas Parashar < shrinivas_paras...@symantec.com> wrote: > Hi, > When we create a button using s:button, Struts 2 always renders button of > type submit. > If we specify the type as button Struts 2 renders as below > <button type="submit"...... /> > If we specify type as submit Struts 2 renders as below > <input type="submit" ... /> > > In both the cases the button is of type submit even if we want > non-submittable button. > > Does anyone know how can we get output as below > <button type="button".. /> > > Regards, > Shrinivas > -- With Regards Umesh Awasthi http://www.travellingrants.com/