Question

I have a problem with search box. So here is the code to generate the form.

@using (@Html.BeginForm("Index", "Search"))
    {

            <input name="query" type="text" />
            <input type="submit" />

    }

and the route:

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Search",
            "Search",
            new { controller = "Search", action = "Index"}
            );

So basically right now when user types in something in search box and clicks the button, it takes him to url /Search and displays the search value. But I would like to have /Search?query=searchedvaluehere. Also when I manually type in /Search?query=something it does search for something. So all I need is to have the query in the URL to appear automatically.

The Controller action looks like this:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index(string query)
{
//some code here
}

Answer 1

You just need to set the form action to get, instead of post, which is the default. There’s an overload of Html.BeginForm() which lets you set that.

Html.BeginForm("Index", "Search", FormMethod.Get)