Question

I need a little help. I’m trying to make a little project in MVC 3 with Razor. A page with 2 buttons: Button 1 and Button 2. When I click on Button 1 I want to go at Page 1. The same with Button 2 ( to Page 2). It’s not difficult, BUT I want the redirection to be made in Controller, not in View (cshtml). I know that I need to use ActionName and RedirectToAction, but I don’t know how. Please help me!

Answer 1

What you’ll need to do is check which button was pressed in the HttpPost part of the controllers action then redirect accordingly.

As a very basic example you could add two

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="<val>"> 

controls into your forms view each having the same name and a different value (instead of ) then add a string parameter called submit to the HttpPost action. Assuming the buttons have values “button1” and “button2” Then in your action’s code you could use:

if(submit == "button1") {
  RedirectToAction("Page1");
} else {
  RedirectToAction("Page2");
}

to redirect based on which button was pressed