I like using the Html.BeginForm and Html.EndFrom helper functions,

And was wondering why in the book you don't, is there a reason for this or a matter of preference.

<formmethod="post"action="<%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article") %>"class="category-create">

Couldn't this of been done like this?

<% Html.BeginForm(method="post"action="<%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article") %>"class="category-create">); %>

<% Html.EndForm(); %>

Your syntax for the second isn't valid.

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can you explin that comment, is there a better way to do it or am I unable to use this helper method

Your syntax is wrong. There is no way that this will compile and execute:

<% Html.BeginForm(method="post"action="<%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article") %>"class="category-create">); %>

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OK is there a way to use the helper method to do this, and what would the syntac be?

You can find all the parameters for BeginForm here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...v=VS.100).aspx

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OK what if I do this

<% Html.BeginForm("<%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article" %>", FormMethod.Post, new { class = "category-create" } )); %>"

based off link by Jacques, this is what I came up with, but still not sure if URL part will get put into the action=

string for the action part = <%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article" %>"

the Post method = FormMethod.Post

the Id which I changed to a class = new { class = "category-create" }
the last one I guess would be anobject


<% Html.BeginForm(<%= Url.Action(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] as string, "Article" %>", FormMethod.Post, new { class = "category-create" } )); %>"


On http://forums.asp.net/t/1361569.aspx, someone said

You can specify addition attributes if you use the overloads that take htmlAttributes as a parameter. For example,

<% using (Html.BeginForm("foo", "bar", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "myID" }))
{ %>
<%} %> will result in the following HTML:
<form action="/bar/foo" id="myID" method="post"></form>
Not sure whether I understand the first part correctly. Do you only want to generate the opening <form> tag?
Jacques

This what I come up with to actually get the code to get a clean compile

<% Html.BeginForm(this.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"] asstring, "Article", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "category-create" } ); %>


Will this do what was expected in the form action in the book.

Remember there is no magic with the web, it is all HTTP with GET and POST most of the time, if what the resulting HTML from the helper method generates is close or exactly like the HTML shown in the book then the answer is yes, if it isn't then you may have the tweak some.

By the way I am purposely avoiding the question you want answered, because it is very easy to verify that the HTML is the same. Once you dive in to the HTML and start looking around and taking some of the magic out of what the ASPX page shows and what the resulting HTML is it will help you become a better programmer. Right now I feel like you are using this forum as a crutch, and you don't have to, because if you were smart enough to want to learn something new like MVC, you are smart enough to understand what you see in an HTML markup.

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