How do you handle multiple submit buttons in ASP.NET MVC Framework?

Question

Is there some easy way to handle multiple submit buttons from the same form? For example:

<% Html.BeginForm(\"MyAction\", \"MyController\", FormMethod.Pos         


        

Answer 1

I've came across this 'problem' as well but found a rather logical solution by adding the name attribute. I couldn't recall having this problem in other languages.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.2

• ...
• If a form contains more than one submit button, only the activated submit button is successful.
• ...

Meaning the following code value attributes can be changed, localized, internationalized without the need for extra code checking strongly-typed resources files or constants.

<% Html.BeginForm("MyAction", "MyController", FormMethod.Post); %>



<% Html.EndForm(); %>`

On the receiving end you would only need to check if any of your known submit types isn't null

public ActionResult YourAction(YourModel model) {

    if(Request["send"] != null) {

        // we got a send

    }else if(Request["cancel"]) {

        // we got a cancel, but would you really want to post data for this?

    }else if(Request["draft"]) {

        // we got a draft

    }

}