Question

I have a helper method inside my App_Code folder which returns some html to be displayed on the page. How can I do jQuery/AJAX request to call that method (passing an int as a parameter) and have the HTML returned so I can display it on the page?

I’ve been looking everywhere and have absolutely no idea where to even start. I’d appreciate any help at all.

Answer 1

Add another page that uses the Helper to render HTML, and provide a value via the AJAX call. For example, you might have a page called RenderHelper.cshtml:

@{
    var i = Request["id"].AsInt();
}

@Helpers.MyMethod(i)

Then in your calling page, use the jQuery load function:

$('#elementToFill').load('RenderHelper/?id=' + some_int);