Question

In my ASP.NET MVC application I have the following GET input field:

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Products", FormMethod.Get) { %>
   <input type="text" name="searchQuery" id="searchQuery" />
<% } %

I want this to go to the route:

routes.MapRoute("ProductSearchRoute", 
    "Products/Search/{searchQuery}/{pageNumber}", 
new { controller = "Products", action = "Search", pageNumber = 1 });

The problem is, it goes to /Products as query string, e.g. Products?searchQuery=Motoroil. How do I get it to use my ProductSearchRoute and instead form /Products/Search/Motoroil ?

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, you’re trying to dynamically alter the location the form posts to, based on the inputs of the form?

You’ll need to use javascript for this, to alter the form’s target attribute. The BeginForm() is for rendering the form tag, which from an html perspective, is static.