ASP.NET MVC form input not working as expected

Question

Trying to understand why my page doesn't work as expected. I was expecting the SignIn method on the controller to be called when clicking submit button, however, StartGame is still be called instead. The page originates through this URL: http://{domain}/Play/StartGame

Markup:

@{ ViewBag.Title = "Start Game"; } <h2>StartGame</h2> @using (Html.BeginForm()) { @Html.TextBox("gamerId"); <input type="submit" value="SignIn" class="btn btn-default" /> } 

Controller:

public class PlayController : Controller { public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } public ActionResult StartGame() { return View(); } public ActionResult SignIn(string gamerId) { return View(); } } 

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

You need to specify the action in your BeginForm().

@using (Html.BeginForm("SignIn","Play")) { @Html.TextBox("gamerId"); <input type="submit" value="SignIn" class="btn btn-default" /> } 

Or another option is to create an overload action and use an attribute:

[HttpPost] public ActionResult StartGame(string gamerId) { return View(); }