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user9993
user9993

Reputation: 6180

How do I correctly post form data to a controller action?

I am unable to post data from a form to a controller action. I've created the form with HTML.BeginForm() and I have a controller which works fine when I manually create the query string, but I don't understand how to make a form work with my controller action.

<form class="navbar-form navbar-left">
                    <div class="form-group>
                        @using (Html.BeginForm("GeneralSearch", "Search", FormMethod.Post))
                        {
                            @Html.TextBox("searchString")

                            <button type="submit" class="default">Submit</button>
                        }

                    </div>
                </form>

And then in my controller I currently have the HttpGet attribute that ASP.NET automatically placed there. However, if I change it to HttpPost the problem still occurs.

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult GeneralSearch(string searchString)
    {
        return View("SearchResult", viewModel);
    }

When I enter text and submit the form, a network request is sent to:

http://localhost:64562/?searchString=test

Which simply loads the default controller and action instead of the "Search" controller I specified in the using statement. How do I correctly post to a specific action?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 961

Answers (2)

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 77926

Html.BeginForm( adds a <Form> tag but I see you are trying to add the form tag inside another form tag as seen below; which is wrong.

<form class="navbar-form navbar-left">
                    <div class="form-group>
                        @using (Html.BeginForm("GeneralSearch", "Search",

Again, your controller must expose different action method to cater GET and POST request and you should rather have

public ActionResult GeneralSearch()
{
    return View();
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult GeneralSearch(string searchString)
{
    return View("SearchResult", viewModel);
}

Upvotes: 3

Andy T
Andy T

Reputation: 9901

You are POSTing to a method that is listening to GET.

Switch the FormMethod

@using (Html.BeginForm("GeneralSearch", "Search", FormMethod.Get))

Upvotes: 1

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