Question

I have a form in my master page declared:

 <form name="search" method="post" action="searchresults.aspx" id="searchform" runat="server" enableviewstate="true">

I have a text box in a control called TopicSearchTreeControl and the textbox within there is declared as:

 <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywordSearch" value="Enter keyword(s) or pub. number" runat="server" class="watermark" />

But when the user hits enter on the keyboard to submit the form and the page_load function in searchresults.aspx.cs is called:

keywords = Request.Form["keywords"]; 

The above line is always blank.

What seems to be the problem?

Answer 1

If it’s being posted, Request[] will find it, it will search all Request collections:

//should work
keywords = Request["keywordSearch"];