ASP.NET MVC ActionLink and post method

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Can anyone tell me how can I submit values to Controller using ActionLink and POST method?
I don't want to use buttons.
I guess it has something with jquery.

17 Answers

You can't use an ActionLink because that just renders an anchor <a> tag.
You can use a jQuery AJAX post.
Or just call the form's submit method with or without jQuery (which would be non-AJAX), perhaps in the onclick event of whatever control takes your fancy.

This is taken from the MVC sample project

@if (ViewBag.ShowRemoveButton)
      {
         using (Html.BeginForm("RemoveLogin", "Manage"))
           {
              @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
                  <div>
                     @Html.Hidden("company_name", account)
                     @Html.Hidden("returnUrl", Model.returnUrl)
                     <input type="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="Remove" title="Remove your email address from @account" />
                  </div>
            }
        }

jQuery.post() will work if you have custom data. If you want to post existing form, it's easier to use ajaxSubmit().

And you don't have to setup this code in the ActionLink itself, since you can attach link handler in the document.ready() event (which is a preferred method anyway), for example using $(function(){ ... }) jQuery trick.

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