Question

I currently have a TextBox using:

<%: Html.TextBox("TextBox1") %>

How do I get the value of what is typed into the TextBox as a string so that I can use that string variable throughout my application?

The view has he following with the inherits on top of page to model. This page is named “InputNumbersSection”:

<%: Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Number) %>

and the action:

<%: Html.ActionLink("Get Number!", "DisplayNumbersSection") %>

The Model has this:

 public class NumberModels
    {
        public string Number { get; set; }
    }

The controller has the following:

public ActionResult DisplayNumbersSection(NumberModels model)
        {

            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                string TextBoxValue = model.Number;
                ViewData["Number"] = TextBoxValue;
            }      
            return View();
        }

The ViewData I use in another page to return the number from the textbox typed in the view.

When I type somthing into the textbox, I do not see the property getting hit or executed. The “Number” property returns NULL all the time. It almost seems as if it is not picking up what I type into the TextBox

Answer 1

You can get it from the

Request.Form

But this is very primitive solution.

You must use strongly typed views and work with your model in actions.