Question

When cliking the button form post is not working. Guys any idead ?

Razor VIew

<div id="contactform">
    <h3>
        Contact Form</h3>
    @using (Html.BeginForm("contacts", "Home"))
    {
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        @Html.ValidationSummary()


        <fieldset>
            <ol>
                <li>
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Name)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Name)
                </li>
                <li>
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Email)
                </li>
                <li>

                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Phone)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Phone)
                </li>
                <li>

                    @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.Message)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Message)
                </li>
            </ol>
            <input type="button" value="contacts"/>
        </fieldset>

    }
</div>

Model

public class ContactModel
{
    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.Text)]
    [Display (Name="Name")]  
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
    [Display (Name="Email")]
    public string Email { get; set; }

    [Required]        
    [Display (Name="Phone")]
    public string Phone { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
    [Display(Name = "Message")]   
    public string Message { get; set; }


}

Home Controller

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult contacts(ContactModel contact)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {

    }


    return View();
}

Answer 1

If you want to submit your data to the server you need a submit button in order to the browser (if you are not posting with javascript) sends your data to the server

So change:

<input type="button" value="contacts"/>

to:

<input type="submit" value="contacts"/>

and it should work.