Question

I don’t find how to submit a form that’s in a partial view.

I’ve made a kind of search engine for a website. I’d like to add it in the layout from a partial view. My problem is that when I click on ‘submit’, nothing happens if I’m not in the search view.

Here is the code of the partial view

@Using Html.BeginForm(IsPost)
    @Html.TextBox("SearchString") 
   @<input type="submit" value="Go!"/>
End Using

How should I parameter my button if I want it to work correctly?

Namespace MvcApplication4
Public Class SearchController
    Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller

    Private db As schema_crmEntities = New schema_crmEntities
'
' GET: /Search
Function Index() As ActionResult
    Return View()
    End Function

    '
    ' POST: /Search
    <HttpPost()>
    Function Index(search As String) As ActionResult
        Dim chaine As String = Request("searchString")

    [...]
        Dim model = New SearchModel With {
            .Meetings = meetings,
            .Interviews = interviews,
            .Opportunites = opportunites,
            .Clients = clients,
            .Contacts = contacts
            }

        Return View(model)
    End Function
End Class
End Namespace

;

  <form method="post" action="/(S(v1sax2fo0frbeuw1ul1xcoet))/Search"><input type="text" value="" name="SearchString" id="SearchString"/>            

   <input type="submit" value="Go!"/>
  </form>

Answer 1

Make sure you specify the controller and the action you are posting to:

@Using Html.BeginForm("MyAction", "MyController", FormMethod.Post)
    @Html.TextBox("SearchString") 
    @<input type="submit" value="Go!"/>
End Using