MVC native way to form url from text inputs

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In ASP.NET MVC i have a route /search/{what}/{where}/{pagenr}/

And on my homepage i have 2 text inputs, in which i want the user to type something like:

text1: apples text2: spain.

If i use FormMethod.Post, this works fine, but i dont get the correct Url. I just get /search. In some other post someone mentioned to use FormMethod.Get, but then i get my posted values in querystring form, which is not what i want.

Can anyone tell me how i go from that input form, to the url that matches my route?

Of course i can do that with javascript. But i was thinking that there should be a better, MVC way of doing this?

jennas · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06 06:38:10Z

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If you dont want to use javascript you will need to do your regular http post and then redirect inside your action

return RedirectToAction("Search", new { What = "..", Where = "..", Pagenr = ".." });

Mind you, if your using ajax forms this wont work and i would recommend doing a javascript navigation.

edited Aug 6, 2014 at 6:38

answered Aug 6, 2014 at 6:32

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Tys Over a year ago

Thanks. That was the answer i was looking for.

artragis · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06 06:34:11Z

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According to W3C, GET forms have to use query strings (starts with ? and separated with &).

The only way to transform query strings to url segment is JavaScript.

Or you can just forget the segment built route.

answered Aug 6, 2014 at 6:34

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