Question

I put the begin/end form statement in the layout page so that I don’t have to repeat it on several pages. Below’s a simplified version of the code.

@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
    @RenderBody()

    <input type = "submit" name = "nextButton" value = "Next-->" />
}

Things are working well. Unfortunately, I have a page that has several “Delete” buttons. I want to generate a form for each delete button so that it can send the id of the item to delete back to the controller.

Can I do that knowing that there’s already another form on top of that?

Thanks for helping

Answer 1

As Mrchief says, the the HTML specs forbid nested forms. Since MVC just generates standard HTML, you have to work withinn the framework of the spec.

Why not just create two master layouts, and use the form based one most of the time, but use one without a form when you need more control over the embedded forms.

This is the why you should really only use forms exactly where they are needed, not just everywhere.