Passing a GET parameter to ActionLink in ASP.NET

Question

Sorry but I am new to C# and ASP.NET and I saw alot of posts about this problem but I quite didn't get it. I am trying to understand how to pass a GET parameter to an action thru HTML.ActionLink:

here is the the URL:

http://localhost:36896/Movies/SearchIndex?searchString=the

and my CSHTML page should look like this:

<input type="Text" id="searchString" name="searchString" />
@Html.ActionLink("Search Existing", "SearchIndex", new { searchString = "the"}) 

this hard coded parameter "the" is actually working, but how can I select the input element with id=searchString, with something like document.getElementById("searchString").value

Thanks,

Answer 1

This makes the @Html.EditorFor refer to the Title field of the object, kinda in a random way but it works!

@using (Html.BeginForm ("SearchIndex", "Movies", FormMethod.Get))
{
    @Html.EditorFor( x => x.ElementAt(0).Title)
    <button type="submit">Search</button>
}

Still couldn't pass input parameter to the URL in the GET.

EDIT:

FINAL SOLUTION:

@Html.TextBox("SearchString")
    <button type="submit">Filter</button>

and on the controller side, switch the input parameter. Basically it will automatically recognize the passed parameter.

public ActionResult SearchIndex(string searchString)
        {
           ...
        }