How to invoke a controller using a button in Spring-mvc?

I am using Spring MVC. I have a home page called `index.jsp` ``` <a href="register.htm"> Register an Employee</a> <input type="button" onclick="register.htm" value="REGISTER"> ``` When i click on a link `Register an Employee` , the flow comes into the `handleRequest` but when i click on submit button nothing happened. My handleRequest method look like this. ``` @RequestMapping(value = "/register.htm", method = RequestMethod.GET) public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("register"); return mav; } ``` How i can do this?