Mvc3: Html.beginform Search Returning Empty Querystring

In an MVC3 app, i have the following View: @using (Html.BeginForm('Index', 'Search', new {query = @Request.QueryString['query']}, FormMethod.Post)) {

Solution 1:

The Problem is that you are look in the Request.QueryString collection. But you are doing a POST so the query value is in the Request.Form Collection. But i think you want your TextBox filled with the data so can do it like in my sample.

Sample

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{
   <inputtype="search" name="query"id="query" value="@Request.Form["query"]" />
}

But this is not the real MVC approach. You should create a ViewModel for that.

Model

namespaceMyNameSpace.Models
{
    publicclassSearchViewModel
    {
        publicstring Query { get; set; }
    }
}

View

@model MyNameSpace.Models.SearchViewModel

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{
   @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Query)
   <input type="submit" />
}

Controller

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return View(new SearchViewModel());
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(SearchViewModel model)
{
    // do your searchreturn View(model);
}

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