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JunHow to get textboxes values in MVC4 created by jQuery
Yesterday, I was trying to get the values of TextBoxes created by jQuery. I was expecting to get the value of each Textbox created by jQuery by the Id attribute of the TextBox, but I was getting NULL
. I tried to find out the reason behind this reason and finally I got the solution. Let's understand the ID and Name attribute of Html controls.
ID
Id attribute of an input html control is responsible for uniquely identified a control on the html page. We use Id for getting an input html control's value using jQuery at client side or for applying some CSS to that control.
Name
Name attribute of an input html control is responsible for posting that control values on server side.
Hence, while creating a Html TextBox or Dropdown list using jQuery also defined the Id and Name attributes of an Html TextBox or Dropdown list.
Note
When you will not defined the Name attributes of an Html TextBox or Dropdown list then form will not post the TextBox or Dropdown list values to the server. It means at controller's action result you will not find the Html TextBox or Dropdown list.
Suppose, you need to select no of customers from drop down list as shown below fig.



The View
<script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function () { $("#ddl").change(function () { var i = $("#ddl :selected").val(); var str = ""; for (var j = 1; j <= i; j++) { var id = "txtCustomer" + j; //Remember to add name attribute to get values at server side str = str + "<span>Customer " + j + " Full Name: </span><input type='text' id='" + id + "' name='" + id + "'/><br/>"; } $("#content").html(str); }); }); </script> <br /> @using (Html.BeginForm()) { <h2>Get TextBoxes Values Created by jQuery</h2> <span>Select No. of Customers </span> <select id="ddl" name="ddl"> <option>Select</option> <option>1</option> <option>2</option> <option>3</option> <option>4</option> </select> <br /> <div id="content"> </div> <br /> <div align="center"> <input type="submit" id="btnSave" value="Save" /> </div> }
You can get the Html TextBox or Dropdown list values created by jQuery by two method as given below -
Method 1: Get Values Using FormCollection
public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Index(FormCollection form, string ddl) { for (int i = 1; i <= Convert.ToInt32(ddl); i++) { string id = "txtCustomer" + i; string customer = form[id]; } return View(); }
Method 2: Get Values Using Request.Form
public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult Index(string ddl) { for (int i = 1; i <= Convert.ToInt32(ddl); i++) { string id = "txtCustomer" + i; string customer = Request.Form[id]; } return View(); }
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