Question

I’m using the asp.net MVC pattern of having a url like controller/action/id. This works fine if I navigate to the url directly.

I want to have a page where the user can input the id and click a button (or link) which takes them to the correct url.

Do I need to somehow make an action link that points to a varying url based on the input using some client-side script?
Or can I render a Form that GETs the correct url?

Is what I’m doing unusual; should I be doing something else? (Note that the number of ids is too long to list).

Answer 1

Assuming you have the default route set up, you can do the following client-side script (make sure it’s in the same file though):

var yourLink = '@Url.Action("controller", "action")';
//should output controller/action/

Then assuming your button has the id myButton and the textbox has the id myTextBox, you can do this jQuery:

$("#myButton").click(function () {
    location.href = yourLink + $("#myTextBox").val();
    //should output controller/action/5 for example, although you might
    //want to make sure they've put a "correct" value in here
});