Question

I am using @Html.ActionLink("Home", "Home") to currently pass back to “Home” when clicked. However, is it possible to get the page to perform a post on itself (i.e. Hit its post event in the controller) when the action link is clicked.

I basically need a method of navigating to a page, but first submitting all the current pages data into the model.

Note: Forgot to add that the ActionLink is inside a partialView on the page

Answer 1

You can use the AjaxHelper method ActionLink() to submit a POST of the current page. And then for your HttpPost action method in your controller, just do a redirect to Home.

Something like this:

Your View

@Ajax.ActionLink("Click me", "SubmitMe", "Current", new AjaxOptions() { HttpMethod = "Post" })

Your Controller

public class CurrentController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult SubmitMe(SomeModel someModel)
    {
        // do what you have to do here
        return RedirectToAction("Home", "Home");
    }
}