How can I set a Button's type to "Button" (as opposed to the default "Submit") in C#?

Question

According to an answer here, I can prevent a button from submitting the form by setting its type value to "Button", like so in HTML:

<button type="button">Cancel changes</button>

...but how can I do this in C#? I am creating my controls dynamically, something like this (pseudocode, as I'm away from my IDE):

button btn = new Button 
             {
               CSS = "bla"
             }
btn.Type = "Button"; // <- something like this?

you can also add UseSubmitBehavior="false" to an asp:Button control. — smoore4, Apr 18 '19 at 15:56

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '15 at 02:37

Use HtmlButton instead of Button if you want the "HTML button tag"

var btn = new HtmlButton();
btn.Attributes["class"] = "bla";
btn.Attributes["type"] = "button";

Button renders <input type="submit" /> and Button.UseSubmitBehavior renders <input type="button" />.

HtmlButton will render <button type="YOUR_DEFINITION"></button>.

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