Possible bug in ASP.NET MVC with form values being replaced

Question

I appear to be having a problem with ASP.NET MVC in that, if I have more than one form on a page which uses the same name in each one, but as different types (radio/hidden/e

Answer 1

This would be the expected behavoir - MVC doesn't use a viewstate or other behind your back tricks to pass extra information in the form, so it has no idea which form you submitted (the form name is not part of the data submitted, only a list of name/value pairs).

When MVC renders the form back, it is simply checking to see if a submitted value with the same name exists - again, it has no way of knowing which form a named value came from, or even what type of control it was (whether you use a radio, text or hidden, it's all just name=value when its submitted through HTTP).