Ajax.BeginForm results in redirect to partial view instead of in-place

Question

My Search.cshtml has a div named \"search-results\" that is to be updated. SearchResults is the action name. I have done this many times on MVC2/VS2008 projects, but this is my

Answer 1

Ok, figured out my problem.

I was calling Ajax.BeginForm with the AjaxOption OnSuccess pointint to a js function that updated my place holder. But this is not needed, with unobtrusive. Once I removed the OnSucces from the Ajax options everything started working.

~S

Answer 2

You forgot to include the jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js script to your page (adjust the path as necessary):

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

As far as Microsoft*.js scripts are concerned, they are obsolete in ASP.NET MVC 3 and should no longer be used unless you are porting some legacy application. They have been replaced by jQuery.