MVC razor form with multiple different submit butt

Question

A Razor view has 3 buttons inside a form. All button's actions will need form values which are basically values coming input fields.

Every time I click any of buttons it redirected me to default action. Can you please guide how I can submit form to different actions based on button press ?

I really appreciate your time, guidance and help.

Answer 1

Simplest way is to use the html5 FormAction and FormMethod

<input type="submit" 
           formaction="Save"
           formmethod="post" 
           value="Save" />
    <input type="submit"
           formaction="SaveForLatter"
           formmethod="post" 
           value="Save For Latter" />
    <input type="submit"
           formaction="SaveAndPublish"
           formmethod="post"
           value="Save And Publish" />

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Save(CustomerViewModel model) {...}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SaveForLatter(CustomerViewModel model){...}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SaveAndPublish(CustomerViewModel model){...}

There are many other ways which we can use, see this article ASP.Net MVC multiple submit button use in different ways

Answer 2

The cleanest solution I've found is as follows:

This example is to perform two very different actions; the basic premise is to use the value to pass data to the action.

In your view:

@using (Html.BeginForm("DliAction", "Dli", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "mainForm" }))
{
    if (isOnDli)
    {
        <button name="removeDli" value="@result.WeNo">Remove From DLI</button>
    }
    else
    {
        <button name="performDli" value="@result.WeNo">Perform DLI</button>
    }
}

Then in your action:

    public ActionResult DliAction(string removeDli, string performDli)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(performDli))
        {
            ...
        }
        else if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(removeDli))
        {
            ...
        }

        return View();
    }

This code should be easy to alter in order to achieve variations along the theme, e.g. change the button's name to be the same, then you only need one parameter on the action etc, as can be seen below:

In your view:

@using (Html.BeginForm("DliAction", "Dli", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "mainForm" }))
{

        <button name="weNo" value="@result.WeNo">Process This WeNo</button>

        <button name="weNo" value="@result.WeNo">Process A Different WeNo This Item</button>
}

Then in your action:

    public ActionResult DliAction(string weNo)
    {
        // Process the weNo...

        return View();
    }

Answer 3

In case you're using pure razor, i.e. no MVC controller:

<button name="SubmitForm" value="Hello">Hello</button>
<button name="SubmitForm" value="World">World</button>
@if (IsPost)
{
    <p>@Request.Form["SubmitForm"]</p>
}

Clicking each of the buttons should render out Hello and World.

Answer 4

in the view

<form action="/Controller_name/action" method="Post>

 <input type="submit" name="btn1" value="Ok" />
 <input type="submit" name="btn1" value="cancel" />
 <input type="submit" name="btn1" value="Save" />
</form>

in the action

string str =Request.Params["btn1"];
if(str=="ok"){


}
if(str=="cancel"){


}
if(str=="save"){


}

Answer 5

This answer will show you that how to work in asp.net with razor, and to control multiple submit button event. Lets for example we have two button, one button will redirect us to "PageA.cshtml" and other will redirect us to "PageB.cshtml".

@{
  if (IsPost)
    {
       if(Request["btn"].Equals("button_A"))
        {
          Response.Redirect("PageA.cshtml");
        }
      if(Request["btn"].Equals("button_B"))
        {
          Response.Redirect("PageB.cshtml");
        }
  }
}
<form method="post">
   <input type="submit" value="button_A" name="btn"/>;
   <input type="submit" value="button_B" name="btn"/>;          
</form>

Answer 6

You can use JS + Ajax. For example, if you have any button you can say it what it must do on click event. Here the code:

 <input id="btnFilterData" type="button" value="myBtn">

Here your button in html: in the script section, you need to use this code (This section should be at the end of the document):

<script type="text/javascript">
$('#btnFilterData').click(function () {
    myFunc();
});
</script>

And finally, you need to add ajax function (In another script section, which should be placed at the begining of the document):

function myFunc() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        contentType: "application/json",
        url: "/myController/myFuncOnController",
        data: {
             //params, which you can pass to yu func
        },
        success: function(result) {

        error: function (errorData) {

        }
    });
};