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TechGuy
TechGuy

Reputation: 4570

Ajax Search Function not fire in controller

I'm going to implement some search functionality. But I'm still failing to pass searchString to the controller.

@model IEnumerable<ASF.NWS.Entities.DX.News>        

@using (Ajax.BeginForm("Index", "News", new { searchString = searchString }, new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "showNews", InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, OnFailure = "error" }))
{
    <input type="text" id="searchString" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
}

My controller:

public ActionResult Index(string searchString) // <-- searchString comes null
{
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

user3559349
user3559349

Reputation:

You need to give you input a name attribute

<input type="text" name="searchString" id="searchString" />

Its the name and value attributes of each control that are sent when a form is submitted (the id attribute is probably not required unless you are using javascript to access the element)

You also need to remove new { searchString = searchString } from the Ajax.BeginForm helper. Your trying to set a route value, but searchString will be undefined

Upvotes: 4

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