ASP.NET MVC form input not working as expected

Question

Trying to understand why my page doesn't work as expected. I was expecting the SignIn method on the controller to be called when clicking submit button, however, StartGame is still be called instead. The page originates through this URL: http://{domain}/Play/StartGame

Markup:

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Start Game";
}

<h2>StartGame</h2>

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.TextBox("gamerId");
    <input type="submit" value="SignIn" class="btn btn-default" />
}

Controller:

public class PlayController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult StartGame()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult SignIn(string gamerId)
    {
        return View();
    }
}

What am I missing here?

mxmissile · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-12 14:38:04Z

2

You need to specify the action in your BeginForm().

@using (Html.BeginForm("SignIn","Play"))
{
    @Html.TextBox("gamerId");
    <input type="submit" value="SignIn" class="btn btn-default" />
}

Or another option is to create an overload action and use an attribute:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult StartGame(string gamerId)
{
      return View();
}

answered Aug 12, 2014 at 14:38

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Chris Pratt Over a year ago

@tatmanblue: Just for clarification. Html.BeginForm() will post to the currently rendered action, StartGame in this case. If you want to post somewhere else other than the current URL, then you need to specify the route as @mxmissile describes above.

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