Cancel button in form

Question

I have a cancel button in a form:

@using (Html.BeginForm(\"ConfirmBid\",\"Auction\"))
        {
          some stuff ...

                    

        

Answer 1

I ended up making a helper so I could reuse the cancel button. I added a js confirm in case people click the cancel button by accident after filling in the form.

@helper FormCancelButton(string cancelUrl)
{
    Cancel
}

I then call it like so:

@FormCancelButton(Url.Action("Index", "User" ))

If you are really keen you could try and detect the dirty state of the form too and only show the confirm dialog if the form had been changed.