Submit a html:form with a link

Hey everyone I have a html:form which am I correctly submitting with html:submitt buttons. But I was told to submit with links and not buttons :S So I'm trying to do it. I'm trying to do it like this:
<html:form action="/UpdateDeleteColecao.do" method="post" focus="colecao">
      <table border="0" align="center">
          <tr><td width="50%"> Cole��o </td><td width="50%"><html:text property="colecao" value="${requestScope.col.colecao}" readonly="true"/></td></tr>
          <tr><td width="50%"> Descric�o </td><td width="50%"><html:text property="descricao" value="${requestScope.col.descricao}"/></td></tr>
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             <td width="50%" align="center">
               <html:link action="/UpdateDeleteColecao.do"> <bean:message key="button.add"/> </html:link>
             </td>
             <td width="50%" align="center">
               <html:link action="/UpdateDeleteColecao.do"> <bean:message key="button.delete"/></html:link>
             </td>
          </tr>
       </table><br/>
    </html:form> It is not working. I get the following error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
auge.form.AddColecaoForm.validate(AddColecaoForm.java:39)It works perfectly with the html:submit buttons. My action is a LookupDispatchAction. Is there a way to do it? Oh, a second question. What if I wanted to put the submit links to this form in a second frame, would that be possible?
I wouldn't wanna use Javascript, because if it's disabled everything will fail terribly. SO, I wanna know if there's any other way.
Thanks

I cannot use the typical regular HTML "a href",
because I have to call a struts action.No... you said you have to submit the form with a link. A link is an "a href", it's exactly what <html:link> generates. But a link cannot be used for form submitting except by invoking Javascript to do it programatically.
Using an action in <html:link>, presuming that's really refering to an action and not just the href value, which is what I'm not really sure of. It's been a while since I've used Struts. So maybe the action is the href part, and you can put "javascript:void(0);" there?
But I'm absolutely positive about the HTML/Javascript aspect. Struts tags don't alter how HTML works. They just make generating some HTML content easier. But in this case, I'm not sure that's helpful because I never found a simple way to get the actual form name that the <html:form> creates.

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