You can write an anchor tag. But clicking on the anchor tag usually does not submit the form, but triggers an HTTP GET request. So you need to write some java script to do the form submission.
<form action="Customer/Create">
<a href="#" id="linkToSubmit">Submit</a>
</form>
Using jQuery and some unobtrusive javascript code to bind the click event on this anchor tag,
$(function(){
$("#linkToSubmit").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault(); // prevent the normal link click behaviour (GET)
$(this).closest("form").submit();
});
});
Now you can execute the code in your HttpPost action of Create
action method in the Customer
controller (because that is the form's action
set to)
Another option is to keep the submit button inside your form and style it so that it looks like a link as explained in this answer.