ASP.NET MVC: How to 'model bind' a non html-helper element

Question

Could you tell me a way(s) that I can bind a model property to a html-element, created without using html helper?

In other words to a plain html element

Answer 1

Just give it a name:

and then inside your controller action simply have an argument with the same name:

public ActionResult Process(string foo)
{
    // The foo argument will contain the value entered in the 
    // corresponding input field
}