MVC button click to action [duplicate]

Question

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Mvc Html.ActionButton

With ASP.NET MVC 3 I know how to create a link to an action method very easily but what I'd like to know is how do you make a button (when clicked) call a particular action method?

Answer 1

Sachin,

If you're using jquery (which you don't mention but I'll show as it's fairly standard with mvc), you'd do the following:

$('#buttonId').click(function(){
   document.location = '@Url.Action("MyAction","MyController")';
});

of course, you'd probably want to use ajax, but this is a basic example.

Answer 2

You could use an html <form>:

@using (Html.BeginForm("SomeAction", "SomeController", FormMethod.Get))
{
    <input type="submit" value="Click me" />
}

Answer 3

How do you do it? The same way you would if not using MVC.

<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Home Page" ONCLICK="window.location.href='/Controller/Action'"> 

Answer 4

As well as Darin's answer about using a form GET method, you can also call javascript functions that will then in turn call an action.

You can intercept the button click event when clicked and run your own code. That code can call an action asynchronously using Ajax or just simply navigate to an action method

Here's sample javascript that intercepts the button click event

$(document).ready(function () {

    myButton.onclick = function (event) {
        // in here you can call an ajax method or just navigate to an action 
        return false;
    }

    // or using jQuery
    $('#myButton').click(function (e) {
        // do whatever here
        e.preventDefault;
    });
});

Or you can intercept a button that has an href attribute

$(function () {
     $("#myButton").click(function () {
         var href = $(this).attr("href");
         var route = href + "?paramName=" + $('#SomeValue').val();
         $(this).attr("href", route);
     });
});

This adds parameter information that you may have stored in another input on the page and appends it to the Url and then navigates to the action