Question

I have a value price in a span in my view file and i want to pass the value of that span to my controller without submitting a form, is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes you can use something like AJAX. However you are thinking about this all wrong, you are not passing from a VIEW => CONTROLLER, you are still doing user submission, and just managing that input.

So you would do a controller LIKE a standard form submit, you could use jQuery to get you there by using its .ajax() function:

 $.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "/mycontroller/function/",
   data: "name=John&location=Boston",
   success: function(msg){
     alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
   }
 });

Reference: http://docs.jquery.com/API/1.1/AJAX