Button to change a value then submit using MVC & Javascript

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Hi Guys.

I have an MVC form where the user has the option to plain Save (using submit) or save and return where the form saves and they move on.

To achieve this I want to fire some jscript when the second button is clicked, it sets a value in the model to true, then I want it to then submit.

I tried the following

<input type="submit" value="Save & Return to Menu" name="SaveAndReturn" id="SaveAndReturn" />

With

$("#SaveAndReturn").click(function () {
        $("#ReturnToList").val(true);
    });

But this simply submits presumably because the jscript doesn't get fired as the submit occurs first.

My MVC form starts with the following and I believe the button should be like the following:

@using (Html.BeginForm("HelpdeskView", "Helpdesk", @Model))
   {
       <input type="button" value="Save & Return to Menu" name="SaveAndReturn" id="SaveAndReturn" />
   }

But I don't know what to do about jscript. (I'm new to this...)

I have tried:

$("#SaveAndReturn").click(function () {
        $("#ReturnToList").val(true);
        document.getElementById("HelpdeskView").submit();
    });

But this doesn't work.

Please help... I'm sure it's easy, but I'm struggling...

Thanks

Posted 9-Apr-13 5:35am

Paul Unsy

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 9-Apr-13 11:49am

Have you added the jQuery files to your project ?

Paul Unsy 9-Apr-13 12:17pm

Yes. I'm using jQuery and javascript all over the show... I can fire the click event for the button, but I can't figure out the syntax to actually perform the submit.

Thanks,

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 10-Apr-13 1:50am

Have you tried to debug the code using FireBug of firefox ?

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Moykn · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-09T10:33:00

You can fire the form submit event with jQuery using:
considering that your form has the id "HelpdeskView", please check in you generated html if the form has this id

JavaScript

$("#HelpdeskView").submit()

probably you'll have to write your form that way

C#

@using(Html.BeginForm("HelpdeskView", "Helpdesk", FormMethod.Post, new{id="HelpdeskView"}))

or you could do the this way

C#

@using (Html.BeginForm("HelpdeskView", "Helpdesk", @Model))
   {
       <input type="submit" value="Save & Return to Menu" name="SaveAndReturn" id="SaveAndReturn" />
   }

then in your click method you just change the value of the $("#ReturnToList")

the click event will be called first so the form will be submited

hope it helps and sorry, my english is bad