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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 77329

How to get Html.BeginForm to GET to correct MVC Route

In my ASP.NET MVC application I have the following GET input field:

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Products", FormMethod.Get) { %>
   <input type="text" name="searchQuery" id="searchQuery" />
<% } %

I want this to go to the route:

routes.MapRoute("ProductSearchRoute", 
    "Products/Search/{searchQuery}/{pageNumber}", 
new { controller = "Products", action = "Search", pageNumber = 1 });

The problem is, it goes to /Products as query string, e.g. Products?searchQuery=Motoroil. How do I get it to use my ProductSearchRoute and instead form /Products/Search/Motoroil ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4194

Answers (4)

hassan
hassan

Reputation: 21

public ActionResult SearchQuery (string searchQuery)
{
    return RedirectToAction (searchQuery, "/Products/Search" );
}

public ActionResult Search (string searchQuery)
{
    return View();
}

Upvotes: 1

Shawn Mclean
Shawn Mclean

Reputation: 57469

As @Daniel Elliott suggested, use BeginRouteForm. To get your URL to generate properly, you have to set the routevalues with the same name defined in your route table.

@using (Html.BeginRouteForm("ProductSearchRoute", new { searchQuery= "my query", pageNumber = 1 })
{

}

Upvotes: 0

womp
womp

Reputation: 116977

If I understand you correctly, you're trying to dynamically alter the location the form posts to, based on the inputs of the form?

You'll need to use javascript for this, to alter the form's target attribute. The BeginForm() is for rendering the form tag, which from an html perspective, is static.

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Elliott
Daniel Elliott

Reputation: 22857

You could try:

<% using (Html.BeginRouteForm("ProductSearchRoute", FormMethod.Get)) %>

Kindness,

Dan

Upvotes: 1

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