html.beginform

I wonder if it's possible to create an extension method which has functionality & behaviour similar to Html.BeginForm(), in that it would generate a complete Html tag, and I could specificy its contents inside <% { & } %> tags. For example, I could have a view like: <% using(Html.BeginDiv("divId")) %> <% { %> <!-- Form content goes here --> <% } %> This capability would be very useful in the context of the functionality I'm trying to produce with the example in this question This would give me the ability to create containers for the types that I'll be <% var myType = new MyType(123, 234); %>

This is my View Code: @using(Html.BeginForm(new { SelectedId = /*SelectedValue of DropDown*/ })) { <fieldset> <dl> <dt> @Html.Label(Model.Category) </dt> <dd> @Html.DropDownListFor(model => Model.Category, CategoryList) </dd> </dl> </fieldset> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> } As code shown I need to pass the dropdown selected value to the action in BeginForm() Html helper. What is your suggestion? Darin Dimitrov The selected value will be passed when the form is submitted because the dropdown list is represented by a <select> element. You just need to adapt your view model so that it

I have a razor view that I added a delete button to inside of an 'if' statement and when the view is rendered in the browser it is displaying "System.Web.Mvc.Html.MvcForm" next to the delete button. How do I get rid of it? Here is the code: <div id="deletestatusupdate"> @if (update.User.UserName.Equals(User.Identity.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { @Html.BeginForm("deleteupdate", "home") @Html.Hidden("returnUrl", Request.Url.ToString()) <button name="id" value="@update.StatusUpdateId">Delete</button> } </div> Here is how it shows up in the rendered Razor View: System.Web.Mvc.Html