I have form area in my view. If I click button A, I want to submit to /Books/1 and if I click button B, I want to submit to /Books/2
How do I achieve this with MVC?
I have form area in my view. If I click button A , I
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I have form area in my view. If I click button A, I want to submit to /Books/1 and if I click button B, I want to submit to /Books/2
How do I achieve this with MVC?
It sounds like what you want to do is call the Books Controller, with, say, the Search action. So for instance you might want to call /Books/Search/<search expression>/1, or /Books/Search/<search expression>/2, etc. (There’s a few different ways you could be formatting these URLs, but it’s mostly a matter of personal preference I think) If you want the URLs to appear as you’ve got them above (without the action in the URL), that can be accomplished with routing, something like this:
I think the main problem is that you’re trying to use the WebForms PostBack everything paradigm in a situation where you’re probably better off sending the information to the server in the URL or query string. The only time you’re actually going to be posting form data here is when the user actually types something into the search box and clicks the Search button – at that point, the controller will pass the search expression to the appropriate View by stuffing it in ViewData, and from there, the View can pull it out and repopulate that textbox on the results page.