Different behaviours for two different submit buttons? - html

Question

I am trying to have two submit buttons in my form - one accepts meetings; the other declines them. They will both have different behaviours. How can I do is in my C# code?
The functionality I want is essentially
if(isPost) {
if(//accept button pressed(Request.Form[???]))
{
}
else
{
}
}
Here is my HTML :
<button name="accept" type="submit">Accept</button>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<button name="decline" type="submit">Decline</button>
<div class="spacer"></div>
Simple enough, but I cannot find a test for this on the Internet or in any documentation. Does anyone know what I would have for this ?

Answer 1

Give each button element the same name (in this example, 'SubmitButton') but a different value, then do a check for the different values in your server code, ie:
<button type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Accept">Accept</button>
<button type="submit" name="SubmitButton" value="Decline">Decline</button>
Then in your server code:
string buttonClicked = Request.Form["SubmitButton"]
if(buttonClicked == "Accept")
{
// Accept code
}
else if(buttonClicked == "Decline")
{
// Decline code
}
Be aware that this won't work on some earlier versions of IE though, and you may have to do a little javascript on the client prior to the post request being made.

Answer 2

As far as I remember, you have a controller action looking like this:
public ActionResult MyAction(string accept, string decline)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(accept))
{
//do something
}
else
{
//do something else
}
}

Answer 3

Presuming you are using MVC3 you would do something like
#using (Html.BeginForm("Accept","Meeting"))
{
<input type="submit" value="Accept" />
}
#using (Html.BeginForm("Decline","Meeting"))
{
<input type="submit" value="Decline" />
}
You would then just have your accept and decline code in your Accept and Decline actions of your meeting controller respectively. No need for an if statement at all.
Example controller
public class MeetingController : Controller
{
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Accept()
{
//Do accept stuff
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Decline()
{
//Do decline stuff
return View();
}
}

Answer 4

Generally in the codebehind in c# you'd be looking for which button was clicked. You'd have an event handler for each button, and you code would react according to which button was clicked.
this.btnRejectAppointment.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnRejectAppointment_Click);
And then your method
private void btnRejectAppointment_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
//code to reject appt.
}
And you'd have the SAME set for the other button.

Answer 5

ASP.NET Button control has OnClick event, so add different handler to every your button:
<asp:Button OnClick="MyHandler1" ... />
in code behind:
protected void MyHandler1(object sender, EventArgs args)
{ /* do stuff */ }

Answer 6

One of the possible solutions - use two buttons of type LinkButton but specify slightly different PostBackUrl:
<!-- Accept meeting button -->
<asp:LinkButton ID="acceptMeeting" runat="server"
PostBackUrl="MeetingsManager.aspx?Mode=Accept" />
<!-- Decline meeting button -->
<asp:LinkButton ID="declineMeeting" runat="server"
PostBackUrl="MeetingsManager.aspx?Mode=Decline" />
And in code behind:
public enum Mode
{
Unknown,
Accept,
Decline
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
Mode currentMode = Mode.Unknown;
var rawMode = Request.QueryString["Mode"];
if (rawMode != null)
{
currentMode = (Mode)Enum.Parse(
typeof(Mode),
rawMode.ToString())
}
}