How to submit a form from layout page in MVC?

Question

In my MVC 4 site I have a common top menu defined in the _Layout master page. In that menu I have a search input textbox, almost the same as the menu here in stackoverflow site, but I have a submit button apart of the search input text field. How can I fire an action and submit that form to some controller when I hit that button? Is it possible in MVC? Here´s the code of the form: ``` ```

Accepted Answer

Roger's answer is correct, but I notice your form tag has some HTML attributes, in which case you need to use a different overload of `Html.BeginForm()`:

```
@using (Html.BeginForm("action", "controller",
   FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "navbar-form navbar-left", role = "search" }))
{
    // ...
}
```

The `@` sign prefixing `class` is required, because `class` is a keyword in C#. Without it, it will produce an error.

The code above makes the assumption that you are `POSTing` your form. If you're using `GET` instead, simply change the form method to `FormMethod.Get`.

How to submit a form from layout page in MVC?

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