How to get textbox value from view to controller in mvc4 on submit button click

Question

How to get the textbox value from view to controller in mvc4?If I using httppost method in controller the page cannot found error was came.

View

@model MVC_2.Models.FormModel

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "DisplayForm";
}

@using (Html.BeginForm("DisplayForm", "FormController", FormMethod.Post))
{
    <form>
        <div>
            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Empname)
            @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Empname)
           @* @Html.Hidden("Emplname", Model.Empname)*@

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.EmpId)
            @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmpId)
           @* @Html.Hidden("Emplid", Model.EmpId)*@

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.EmpDepartment)
            @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmpDepartment)
           @* @Html.Hidden("Empldepart", Model.EmpDepartment)*@

            <input type="button" id="submitId" value="submit" />

        </div>
    </form>
}

model

   public class FormModel
    {
        public string _EmpName;
        public string _EmpId;
        public string _EmpDepartment;

        public string Empname
        {
            get {return _EmpName; }
            set { _EmpName = value; }
        }

        public string EmpId
        {
            get { return _EmpId;}
            set {_EmpId =value;}
        }

        public string EmpDepartment
        {
            get { return _EmpDepartment; }
            set { _EmpDepartment = value; }
        }
    }

controller

        public ActionResult DisplayForm()
        {
            FormModel frmmdl = new FormModel();
            frmmdl.Empname=**How to get the textbox value here from view on submitbutton click???**
        }

Answer 1

First you need to change your button type to "submit". so your form values will be submitted to your Action method.

from:

<input type="button" id="submitId" value="submit" />

to:

<input type="submit" id="submitId" value="submit" />

Second you need to add your model as parameter in your Action method.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult DisplayForm(FormModel model)
    {
       var strname=model.Empname;
             return View();
    }

Third, If your Controller name is "FormController". you need to change the parameter of your Html.Beginform in your view to this:

@using (Html.BeginForm("DisplayForm", "Form", FormMethod.Post))

    {
    //your fields
    }

P.S. If your view is the same name as your Action method which is "DisplayForm" you don't need to add any parameter in the Html.BeginForm. just to make it simple. like so:

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
//your fields
}