passing value from textbox to controller

Question

How can I get value from textbox "EmailList" and send it to controler? I'm always using webforms, and this is my first contact with mvc.

View:

    @Html.TextBox("EmailList")
    @Html.Action("SendEmails")

Controller:

    public ActionResult SendEmails()
    {

        // some operations on EmailList
    }

EDIT


And what if I need just to open simple method 'onclick'? Not actionresult. for example -

       public void SendEmails()
        {
            // some operations on EmailList
        }

Answer 1

So to get the value back into the controller you're going to need to issue a POST first of all so you'll want to setup your controller action for a POST:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SendEmails(string EmailList)
{
}

also notice I added a parameter EmailList that's named exactly the same as the control on the form. Next we need to make sure your HTML is setup right, so when you build the form control build it like this:

@Html.BeginForm("SendEmails", "{ControllerNameHere}", FormMethod.Post)

and then your text box, well leave it alone, it should work just fine.