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

My JQuery approach using an extension method:

public static MvcHtmlString SubmitButtonFor(this HtmlHelper helper, Expression> action, string value) where TController : Controller
{
    RouteValueDictionary routingValues = Microsoft.Web.Mvc.Internal.ExpressionHelper.GetRouteValuesFromExpression(action);

    var onclick = string.Format("$('form').first().attr('action', '/{0}')", string.Join("/", routingValues.Values.ToArray().Where(x => x != null).Select(x => x.ToString()).ToArray()));
    var html = "";

    return MvcHtmlString.Create(html);
}

You can use it like this:

@(Html.SubmitButtonFor(c => c.Save(null), "Save"))

And it renders like this: