Not calling controller on button click MVC

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In my example I'm unable to call a controller from a button click. My button code is :

<button id="confirmsignup" name="confirmsignup" class="btn btn-success" onclick="location.href='@Url.Action("RegisterUser", "Home")'" >Sign Up</button>

My Controller is HomeController.

My Action Method is :

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult RegisterUser(UserInfo objUser)
    {

        int res= udaObj.RegisterUser(objUser);
    }

location.href won't post back. It redirects the current page to /Home/RegisterUser page with HttpGet status. What are you trying to achieve? — Win
– Win, Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 17:53
On that button click, I need to hit that RegisterUser method for inserting my data. — Sriaknth Reddy
– Sriaknth Reddy, Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 17:55

Shyju · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-27 17:54:38Z

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The line location.href="someurl" will issue a new GET request to that url, not a form post!

To submit the form (and it's data) to the HttpPost action method, Wrap your form elements inside a form tag and have the button submit it. Have the action attribute of form set to RegisterUser action method.

You can use the Html.BeginForm helper method to generate the form tag markup.

@using(Html.BeginForm("RegisterUser","Home"))
{
  <!-- your other input form elements goes here -->

  <button id="confirmsignup" type="submit" 
                   name="confirmsignup" class="btn btn-success" >Sign Up</button>

}

answered Jun 27, 2017 at 17:54

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4 Comments

Sriaknth Reddy Over a year ago

Can I use one more like that(html.beginform...) in my cshtml page ? Because my another div contains another button which should hit LoginUser in the same controller.

Shyju Over a year ago

Yes. you can have more than one form in the same view. But make sure they are not nested. Nested forms are invalid html

Sriaknth Reddy Over a year ago

When I used two buttons 1 for login and 1 for registration, the registration is not redirecting whereas login is hitting controller.

Shyju Over a year ago

I said 2 forms. not two buttons in same form.

user5217795 · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-28 06:46:54Z

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<button id="confirmsignup" name="confirmsignup" class="btn btn-success" onclick="location.href='@Url.Action("RegisterUser", "Home")'" >Sign Up</button>

the above code defines like has HTTP GET method .so you cann't call the Registeruser method when button click.

So you just use MVC form submit or jquery post to call that HTTP POST method Or else it consider has GET method.

answered Jun 28, 2017 at 6:46

user5217795

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Sriaknth Reddy Over a year ago

Means, Can I use this method for both buttons with their concern action methods ?

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