Ajax.BeginForm inside Html.BeginForm

Question

I have a view that is used for editing stuff, say Orders. Orders have line items that can be added arbitrarily. So a main view and nested partialviews.

Each part

Answer 1

I tried the exact same thing a while ago. No matter what I did, it wouldn't do the AJAX submit. So I think the answer is: yes, you can't put a submit button for an AJAX form inside a regular html form.

But, why would you have partial submits merged with full submits? The easiest workaround to this imo would be to use JSON requests with jQuery.

for instance, updating a quantity span text when you change a dropdownlist (id=Order):

And the code in the "Orders" controller:

public class OrdersController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult UpdateQty(int id)
    {
        return Json(yourLibrary.getQuantities(id));
    }
}

This Link might help. Regards

Edit:

So.. the link no longer exists. But thanks to the internet wayback machine, we have this copy :)