Question

I have a form in my form view defined as

using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))

This form contins a number of input of type button and button

<input type="submit" value="val1" name="action">
<input type="submit" value="val2" name="action">
<input type="submit" value="val3" name="action" />
<button class="button" type="submit" name="action" value="val4">Val4</button>

I have 2 controllers for this view

Public ActionResult form{
} 

and

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult form(String button)
{
  switch (actionType)
  {
    case "val1":
      return RedirectToAction("AnotherView"); 
    case "val2":
      return RedirectToAction("AnotherView2");
    default:
      return RedirectToAction("AnotherView3");
  }
} 

But whichever button I click, I am being redirected to the Home defined in the form

using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home",

My question is how can I fix this and how can I be certain that this post method is bound to my view as i just typed it in?

Answer 1

using (Html.BeginForm("action_name", "controllername", FormMethod.GET, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))

use input type select:

<select name="action">
<option value="val1" >val1</option>
<option value="val2" >val2</option>
<option value="val3" >val3</option></select>

and method at controller

public ActionResult action_name(String action){
   switch (action)
  {
        case "val1":
          return RedirectToAction("AnotherView"); 
        case "val2":
          return RedirectToAction("AnotherView2");
        default:
          return RedirectToAction("AnotherView3");
  }
}