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I am a newbee trying to develop a MVC3 application. I needed to put a user control on a webpage. I understand that user controls in MVC3 are now partial views. I have written the control as a partial view and added it to the web page with @Html.Partial("_TimePanel") and it seems to work perfectly.

The problem I have is on the client side. The main view needs to collect data from the partial view and combine it with its own data to send back to the controller.

How do I use jscript on the parent view to collect data from the partial view?

Posted 14-Oct-12 7:00am

Don Loukes

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2012-10-14T09:37:00

Well, usercontrol and partial view are not common concepts. Both render to html and both are embedded in a page, but that's all. If you try to treat a partial view as a user control, you mislead yourself. And that's what you did! The view on client side is just html (and js), thus a view can not collect data from the partial views in it. The view concept exists only on server side. At the end there is only a page. I am pretty sure your logical design has some flaws.
Actually you can do what you want on client side, but it makes few sense.

Let's suppose your two views are rendered to forms, and you want to get data from the input fields rendered by two different forms, and send it to one single action. Option one: use jquery to build an ajax call with all fields you need. Option two: use jquery to build a form with all fields, and submit it to the action. Best option: rewrite your partial views not to output a form, just the fields, and put the form element with the necessary action in the "main view".

Keep in mind: with mvc you have full control over the html code, you don't need to stick to the classic asp.net concepts.