Passing html textbox value as a parameter to controllers method in asp.net MVC

Question

I want to pass the Html.Textbox value to a controller from anchor tag, so that I can search the value passed to a controller. Please tell me how can I achieve this.

Answer 1

You don't have to use jQuery. If you're doing a HttpPost, you just need the "name" of the textbox.

On your page:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", FormMethod.Post)) {
    @Html.TextBox(string.Empty, new { name = "textbox" })

    Submit
}

Then in your controller:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(string textbox) {
    // The name of the string parameter must match the name given to the TextBox element on the page.
}