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How do I give a name to a form in ASP.NET MVC using Html.BeginForm()? I want only the name, not the action or controller name because I want to post it through Javascript. I think it should be something like Html.BeginForm(id = "frm").

I tried the following: 

Html.BeginForm(null,null,new{id="frm",name="frm})

Html.BeginForm(new{@id="frm",@name="frm})

But the above code produces output like this:

<form action="/Main/Index/Id?name=Id" method="post">
Geert Immerzeel
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Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Get, new { name = "frm", id = "frm" })

You'll need to catch the form submit with your JavaScript

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Using MVC2, this is what worked for me:

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", null, FormMethod.Post, new {@id = "myForm", @name = "myForm"})) {%>
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@HTML.BeginForm("Target-ViewName where you want to post the page","Controller Name",new {@name="Name of the Form", id="ID of the Form"}) 
{ //form here
}
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    Instead of "Target-ViewName where you want to post the page" I think you mean "Target action method to which you want to post the data". – Sachin Kainth Sep 24 '13 at 14:32
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Taken from this answer: How to pass in ID with Html.BeginForm()?

Can you not just do:

Html.BeginForm(new {@id="Id", @name="Id"});

It can pay to search SO for answers as I've found many things I want to ask have already been encountered.

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Paul Hadfield
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  • you're adding route values though. not html attributes – BritishDeveloper Sep 10 '10 at 09:14
  • I see your answer where you're passing in nulls, I did think you could just use the defaults for the named parameters and pass in a list of additional attributes to append to the output HTML – Paul Hadfield Sep 10 '10 at 09:29
  • i tried your solution before but it generate code like this "
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     – user426306 Sep 10 '10 at 09:49
  • Sorry about that, I did think that was the way it worked - obviously not. In that case, this might be a good example of when to provide your own HTML extension method, or just revert back to good old HTML. – Paul Hadfield Sep 10 '10 at 10:14