Question

Bit of an odd one here:
The following razor syntax renders a nce simple html from with a submit button inside the bottom of it.
When i hit that button i would expect a postback to performed but for reason it dosn’t … any ideas??

Oh by the way this is the entire code for the view …

@model FLM.PRL.EComms.Models.ReplySMS

@using (Html.BeginForm("Reply", "SMS", FormMethod.Post)) {
    <h2>Follow Up</h2>
    @Html.ValidationSummary(true)
    @Html.HiddenFor(model => Model.From)
    @Html.HiddenFor(model => Model.To)
    <div class="editor-label">Reply</div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => Model.Message)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => Model.Message)
    </div>
    <input type="submit" value="Reply" />
    <br />
}

EDIT: Resulting markup generated by this view …

<form action="/SMS/Reply" method="post">    
   <h2>Follow Up</h2>
<input data-val="true" data-val-required="The From field is required." id="From" name="From" type="hidden" value="xxxxxxxx" /><input data-val="true" data-val-required="The To field is required." id="To" name="To" type="hidden" value="xxxxxxx" />    <div class="editor-label">Reply</div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        <textarea class="text-box multi-line" id="Message" name="Message">
</textarea>
        <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Message" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>

    </div>
    <input id="submitReply" type="submit" value="Reply" />
    <br />
</form>

Answer 1

The only reason for this form not to be submitted are scripts interfering with the process. Maybe the validation scripts.

I noted that the Message field is required. Did you provided a value to this field? Don’t you have any validation error message?

In the case validation is fine, I suggest removing selectively all the scripts from the page and see what happens. If removing a script results in your form working, you know it is the source of the problem.