Question

I have a search form like this:

<form action="@Url.Action("Search", "Items", null, null)" method="POST">
                    <input type="search" placeholder="Search" name="q" value="some search term">
                     <input type="hidden" name="city" value="london" />    
                </form>

This invoke “Search” action method:

public ActionResult Search(string city, string q)
        {
            ...
            return View(model);
        }

Here I receive both values and search gone fine.
But URL in my browser is:

http://localhost/mysite/item/Search?city=london

as you can see I am missing “q” parameter in URL.
What have I done wrong here?

Answer 1

You form method is POST, so values are not sent via the query string. Change the POST to GET and you should see them.