Question

I’ve got a list of objects in an MVC view, each with a set of submit buttons – Move up, Move down and Remove.

Using the answer from this question, I can get the button clicked – but I need to know which item it would be operating on.

The problem comes from the fact the input’s value attribute is passed back, I need more information than that – i.e. an id.

Below is a snippet of the contents of a for loop, rendering each item.

<ul>
    <li><input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Move-Up" class="linked-content-position-modifier" /></li>
    <li><input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Move-Down" class="linked-content-position-modifier" /></li>
    <li><input type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Remove" class="linked-content-modifier" /></li>
    <li><%= Model.Contents[i] %></li>
</ul>

When the form is posted back, I can see that the SubmitButton has a value of either Move-Up, Move-Down or Remove – but no idea which item in the array it’s referring too.

Without changing the value to something really ugly, how would I tell which item it’s referring to?

Answer 1

Just a quick idea, but maybe you could try adding hiddenfield to each row and see which one gets submitted?