Question

I have a loop that creates some buttons and (is meant to) make a function call when that button is pressed.

    foreach (Answer a in qanswers)
           {
               //Guid answerid = new Guid();
               <form method="post" action="">
               <div class="float-left">
               <input type="submit" value="@a.Answer1" class="submit" style="width:600px" onmousedown="@{saveTest(a, module, user, quest, healthsafety);}">
               <br /><br />
               </div>
               </form>
           }

However, it calls the “saveTest” procedure at page load for each button produced, rather than onmousedown/onmouseclick.

Is it possible to change this?

Answer 1

I assume from this that saveTest is a server side function that you are trying to call.

onmousedown is a client side event and can only directly run client side script.

If you wish to call a server side function then you will need to specify an action in the form that the page will post pack to.

Have a look here for more on this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.html.formextensions.beginform(v=vs.108).aspx

A quickly modified version of your code would be:

foreach (Answer a in qanswers)
{

    using (Html.BeginForm("saveTest", "ControllerName"))
    {
           <div class="float-left">
           <input type="submit" value="@a.Answer1" class="submit" style="width:600px")>
           <br /><br />
           </div>

    }

}