title: rails 3 - Add a Button that won't submit a form
body: <p>I am trying to add a few "next" and "back" buttons to a form. The Idea is to divide the filling-out process into several steps and with these buttons, the div of the current step gets hidden and the next resp. previous step is displayed.</p>
  
  <p>My Problem is that when I add buttons in the following way...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;button class="proceed_button" id="loan_information"&gt;Proceed&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;button class="cancel_button" id="loan_information"&gt;Cancel&lt;/button&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... they submit the form.
  Is every button inside a form-tag considered to be a submit-button?
  If so, how can I change this behavior?
  If not, why are they doing it then?</p>