View Control name concatenated with ClientID and masterpage control name in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I am working with an ASP.NET MVC application.

I have one master page having one contentplaceholder. I have one view placed in the contentplaceholder of master page. I have a few textBoxes that say "name", "age" , "email" in them. I also have a submit button in my master page.

when I click the submit button, postback event will be called in the controller.

//POST
public ActionResult Result(FormCollection Form)
{
}

If I try to access the value of the text box name using

Form["name"]

it will give me null value.

Instead

Form["$ct100$contentplaceholder1$name"] 

will give me the correct value.

How can I get the value using only name?

Answer 1

Don't mix Web Forms with MVC

You shouldn't be using <asp:TextBox id="name" /> but rather

<%= Html.TextBox("name") %>

Answer 2

The input name was autogenerated for you, which you don't want to happen. Try to generate those inputs in MVC-style, like this:

<%=Html.TextBox("name")%>

or like this:

<input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="" />