ASP.NET MVC Ajax.BeginForm eats params of submit button clicked. Looks like bug

Question

If you are using Ajax.BeginForm() with multiple submit buttons similar to this:

// View.aspx
<% using (Ajax.BeginForm(\"Action\", \"Controller\", 
                    


        

Answer 1

In order for your submit buttons to be "successfull" controls as per the specification, they must be defined within the form element:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#successful-controls

If you can't nest your submit buttons inside your form, you'll probably need to use javascript (or jquery) to submit your form and pass in an additional paramater to indicate which button was clicked.