Calling Html.BeginForm and specifying action

Question

I have been trying to do the following but whatever I try I just keep getting different errors:

@using (Html.BeginForm(Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string)))

This for example produces:

<form action="/adminTests/create?Length=22" method="post">

Has anyone figured out how to do this?

Answer 1

You are using a wrong overload. It should be:

@using (Html.BeginForm(new { action = ViewContext.RouteData.Values.GetRequiredString("action") }))

or:

@using (Html.BeginForm(ViewContext.RouteData.Values.GetRequiredString("action"), ViewContext.RouteData.Values.GetRequiredString("controller"))))

or if you want to generate a form POSTing to the current url use simply (note that this will include any query string parameters):

@using (Html.BeginForm())

For full list of available overloads consult the documentation.