you make the use of the HTML Helper and have
@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
Username: <input type="text" name="username" /> <br />
Password: <input type="text" name="password" /> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Login">
<input type="submit" value="Create Account"/>
}
or use the Url helper
<form method="post" action="@Url.Action("MyAction", "MyController")" >
Html.BeginForm has several (13) overrides where you can specify more information, for example, a normal use when uploading files is using:
@using(Html.BeginForm("myaction", "mycontroller", FormMethod.Post, new {enctype = "multipart/form-data"}))
{
< ... >
}
If you don't specify any arguments, the Html.BeginForm() will create a POST form that points to your current controller and current action. As an example, let's say you have a controller called Posts and an action called Delete
public ActionResult Delete(int id)
{
var model = db.GetPostById(id);
return View(model);
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Delete(int id)
{
var model = db.GetPostById(id);
if(model != null)
db.DeletePost(id);
return RedirectToView("Index");
}
and your html page would be something like:
<h2>Are you sure you want to delete?</h2>
<p>The Post named <strong>@Model.Title</strong> will be deleted.</p>
@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-danger" value="Delete Post"/>
<text>or</text>
@Url.ActionLink("go to list", "Index")
}