Submit a form with href - html

Question

I set the if of the form is as follows:
#using (Html.BeginForm(new {#id="frmHomeInsurance"}))
and instead of using a submit button, I would like to have a submit link.
So, I would like to replace the following:
<input type="submit" value="Get your quote now!" class="btn btn-default"/>
with the following:
<span class="fa fa-comments-o"></span>Get your<br>quote now!
In theory, it should reach at my 'Create' action in my HomeInsurance controller, however, it's not.
Is there anything else I should declare before?
Update:
The action is as follows:
// POST: HomeInsurance/Create
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(HomeInsuranceModel model)
{
}

Answer 1

You can't directly use the href to submit the form.
Create the form like this:
#using(Html.BeginForm("Create", "HomeInsurance", FormMethod.Post, new {enctype = "multipart/form-data"}))
{
<define you form>
}
and then use your anchor tag to submit it(no href is needed):
<a href="javascript:;" class="wow zoomIn" data-wow-delay="0.2s"
onclick="document.forms['frmHomeInsurance'].submit(); return false;">
<span class="fa fa-comments-o"></span>Get your<br>quote now!
</a>
if you want to use the href you can do this but its not very pretty:
<a href="#Url.Action("Create", "HomeInsurance")"
onclick="var e=document.getElementById('yourFormId').action=this.href;e.submit();return false">
Submit</a>