Identify which button has been clicked in MVC2

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I have 2 buttons in my view page. One button is a normal button that uses javascript code to add rows dynamically in a table and the other is a submit button.I want a post action to happen when the user clicks on the button that adds the rows in table,ie, I want to know when a row is being added by the user.

Posted 18-Feb-13 19:21pm

Ancie Varghese

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"Identifying which button has been clicked" would be a fundamental abuse of any event-oriented technology, MVC or not, ASP.NET or anything else. This is not how it works. You create/add a button and provide an event handle to each button individually. This way, you don't need to know which button was clicked: the event handler already does what that button was supposed to be used for.

Only in rare cases, when you have a lot of buttons doing nearly the same with some variation, identification of the button might be needed, to pass some data specific to a particular button, usually, something like an index in the array of controls. Sometimes, such technique is useful, but… mostly for edit boxes, check boxes and other similar controls. For buttons… no, it would rather indicate really bad UI design. I don't believe you needs that; don't even want to discuss such things. Better use the approach I described in the first paragraph.

—SA

Posted 18-Feb-13 19:42pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Thanks Jameel.I did get the button clicked using the code provided by you but have one problem,on giving the name attribute in the input tag for the button my post action doesn't work for any control(dropdownlist,textbox,etc).Is there any solution to that problem?

Posted 5-Mar-13 17:08pm

Ancie Varghese

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Jameel VM · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-18T19:42:00

Add an attribute in the submit button like below

HTML

<input type="submit" id="btnSubmit" name="button" class="button" value="Submit" />

and Access the button name from the action result like below

C#

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Method(string button)
{
if(button=="yoursubmitbutton")
{
}
else
{
}

}

Hope this helps