Invoking particular action on dropdown list selection in MVC

Question

I have a dropdown list in an MVC view. On selection change of dropdown list I want to call specific action method in the controller.

What I have done on view is this :

Answer 1

This is a jQuery thing. Give it a class and wire up to it.

Html.DropDownList("ddl", AvailableList, new { @class = "_select_change" })

A rough script might look like this:

$('._select_change').change(function() { $.post(ctrlUrl); })