Getting values from the html to the controller

Question

I'm trying to access the values a user introduces in a table from my controller.

This table is NOT part of the model, and the view source code is something like:

<table id="tableSeriales" summary="Seriales" class="servicesT" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%">
    <tr>
        <td class="servHd">Seriales</td>
    </tr>
    <tr id="t0">
        <td class="servBodL">
            <input id="0" type="text" value="1234" onkeypress = "return handleKeyPress(event, this.id);"/>
            <input id="1" type="text" value="578" onkeypress = "return handleKeyPress(event, this.id);"/>
            .
            .
            .
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

How can I get those values (1234, 578) from the controller?

Receiving a formcollection doesn't work since it does not get the table...

Thank you.

Answer 1

Using the FormCollection should work unless your table is not inside of a <form> tag

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On top of Lazarus's comment, you can try this, but you have to set the name attribute for each:

<input id="seriales[0]" name="seriales[0]" type="text" value="1234" onkeypress="return handleKeyPress(event, this.id);"/>
<input id="seriales[1]" name="seriales[1]" type="text" value="578" onkeypress="return handleKeyPress(event, this.id);"/>

Now in your Action method you can make your method look like this:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult MyMethod(IList<int> seriales)
{
    // seriales.Count() == 2
    // seriales[0] == 1234
    // seriales[1] == 578
    return View();
}

and seriales will be wired up to those values.