I have a list of items and I would like to delete items that are checked in a list of checkboxes.
I can't use something like CheckboxList
since I'm using Grid.Mvc
to display my lines. That is why I create checkboxes in each line with column.add("<input type="checkbox".....>);
.
Every checkbox has its own ID:
<input type="checkbox" id="3">
<input type="checkbox" id="4">...
I would like to know how to pass all checked checkbox IDs to the controller (from there I will perform delete operations). How can I post an array of checked IDs from my form to my controller action with one button press?
Example of generated HTML:
<label><input type="checkbox" name="deletedItems" value="3"> Some label for 3</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="deletedItems" value="4"> Some label for 4</label>
...
<button type="submit">Submit</submit>
Controller action:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult MyAction(int[] deletedItems)
{
// deletedItems contains all values that were checked
// when the submit button was clicked. Here you can
// loop through the array of IDs and delete by ID.
...
}
Note that the checkboxes do not have an id
attribute. It is not used for model binding. Instead it has a name
attribute named "deletedItems" that matches the name of the argument of the MyAction
controller action, and that is what is used when model binding. The value
attribute of checked checkboxes will be used to populate the deletedItems
array of int[]
.
If you want generated html like
<label><input type="checkbox" name="deletedItems" value="3"> Some label for 3</label>
<label><input type="checkbox" name="deletedItems" value="4"> Some label for 4</label>
Then you can use the following code
<td>@Html.CheckBox("selectedItems", new { @value = @item.checkId })</td>
<td><input id="selectedItems" name="selectedItems" type="checkbox" value="11503" />
<input name="selectedItems" type="hidden" value="false" />
</td>
It won't pass selectedItems to controller.