Button submitting form to "Get" ActionResult instead of "Post"

Question

I just took over a MVC Web Application for an employee who is no longer with the company I work for. The application is in the early development stage and I noticed an unresolved error where a 'submit' button triggers the view's corresponding HttpGet ActionResult, instead of the HttpPost ActionResult.

He included a lot of jQuery scripts in the view, and I originally suspected one of them could be causing the issue, however none seem to apply directly to the button.

Controller (named HomeController.cs):

[HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Create(string distributorObject)
    {
        StockLiftObjectView stockLiftObjectView = new StockLiftObjectView();
        var userInfo = User.Identity.Name.GetActiveDirectoryInfo();
        stockLiftObjectView.txtFirstName = userInfo.FirstName;
        stockLiftObjectView.txtLastName = userInfo.LastName;
        stockLiftObjectView.txtEmail = userInfo.Email;

        if (stockLiftObjectView.RegionId == Guid.Empty)
        {
            stockLiftObjectView.RegionsList = new SelectList(_stockLiftService.GetRegions(), "Id", "RegionName");
        }

        return View(stockLiftObjectView);
    }

    [HttpPost] //Haven't done anything here yet. Ths is never reached
    public ActionResult Create(string command, StockLiftObjectView stockLiftObjectView)
    {
        return View(stockLiftObjectView);
    }

View (named Create.cshtml):

@using Html.BeginForm("Create", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new {id = createStockLift}))
{ 
    //left out some non-useful code here
    
                
                    
                    
                
    
}

Script in View that I thought could be problematic:

I'm sorry my question isn't that specific. I've just been baffled by this issue for the past couple of days and can't think of a good way to describe the problem in a google search. As I said before, I'm not that well versed with jQuery so think I could be misunderstanding something simple.

UPDATE:

Only other time the getview() function is referenced is here...

so I don't understand why it executes when the page loads (I never click the upload button). Again, my misunderstanding is coming from never using more than basic scripts.

Other scripts in the view (don't seem applicable but I'll show in case)




    
    
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                                                <%--ADD FILLER, SRM 2/13/2012--%>
                                
                            
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
                                           
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                             
                                        
                                    
                                
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                           
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                    
 
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                        

                                            
                                                


                                          





    
    

    
        * Required for saving
    
    
        
            

                
                    
                        *CTM First Name:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *CTM Last Name
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *CTM Email:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *Your Region:
                    
                    
                        
                
                
                    
                        *Distributor:
                    
                    
                        Distributor Number Search Text: 
                         

                        Distributor Customer Name Search Text: 
                        


                        Please wait
                        Search
                        
                        
                            
                        
                        

                    
                

                
                    
                        End User:
                    
                    
                
                
                    
                        Account Manufactures:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        Inventory removed from:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *Annual potential for HPD products:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *Competitive Inventory Value:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *50% (.50) Multiplier:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *CREDIT DUE DISTRIBUTOR:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        *Value of the initial order:
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        Stocklift material was scrapped(Date):
                    
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                        Distributor Principal (Signature):
                    
                    
                        
                        

                        Date:
                        
                        

                        
                        

                    
                
                
                    
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iCollect.it Ltd · Accepted Answer

Update:

Having now seen the full output page HTML, you have nested

elements which is invalid and probably causing the problems.

You need to place the forms so that they are not nested in the DOM hierarchy.

First thoughts:

Just a theory: But if I understand the picture from the initial clues, your problem may occur when you do a "search" first. This opens a dialog, populates it with a form, then quite stupidly attaches a permanent submit event handler to every form that exists on the page at the time with class="forms".

The following will fix that one piece of silliness:

      open: function (event, ui) {
         var $panel = $(this);
         $(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").hide();
         $panel.load(href, function (result) {
              $('.forms', $panel).submit(function () {

The fix is to add a scope to the submit handler, e.g. with $('.forms', $panel), so it does not steal all submits from all .forms on the page! It will target only .forms in the panel loaded.

Advice: Look for any other jQuery code, anywhere, that uses submit( and regard it as a potential problem.

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