mvc pass input values to controller parameters

Question

First of all, I'm new to web development, so forgive me for this newbie question.

I have 4 inputs on my View, which I would like to send to my controller when a button is pressed.

<input type="text" name="title" />
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="text" name="link" />
<input type="date" name="date" />

And here is my ControllerMethod:

public ActionResult AddNewsToList(string title ="a", string description = "b", string link = "c", string pubDate = "01-02-2016")
    {
        Models.RssWriter.createNewsItem(title, description, link, pubDate);

        return View("News", NewsFeed.Models.RssReader.GetRssFeed());
    }

So can anyone guide me to making a button that can do this for me? Thanks for reading.

EDIT

This is how it actually looks like right now:

CreateNews.cshtml

@using (Html.BeginForm("AddNewsToList"))
{
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>
                Titel
            </th>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <input type="text" name="title" />
            </td>
        <tr>
            <th>
                Beskrivelse
            </th>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <input type="text" name="description" />
            </td>
        <tr>
            <th>
                Link
            </th>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <input type="text" name="link" />
            </td>
        <tr>
            <th>
                Udgivelsesdato
            </th>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <input type="date" name="date" />
            </td>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <br />
            </td>

    </table>
    <input type="submit" id="AddNewsToList" name="AddNewsToList" value="Tilføj" />

}

But this does not seem to work.

I don't see why this post deserves at negative vote. It is hard to find a similar question on this site. Every question about submitting forms is more advanced, like have two buttons at the same time. — Simon Sondrup Kristensen
– Simon Sondrup Kristensen, Commented Jan 19, 2016 at 18:25
what have you tried? do you know anything about HTML, <form> tag? Also why do you have default parameter values defined for your action? — Red
– Red, Commented Jan 19, 2016 at 18:46

Leonard · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-19 19:12:41Z

2

You might need to specify the controller name as the second argument to the BeginForm method.

As @Gendolkari also pointed out: "it appears that if you provide the action name, you must also provide the controller name. Otherwise the parameter is interpreted as a RouteValues object. He can probably just use BeginForm() without any parameters."

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answered Jan 19, 2016 at 19:12

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