ASP.Net MVC 4 Form with 2 submit buttons/actions

Solution 1:

That's what we have in our applications:
Attribute

public class HttpParamActionAttribute : ActionNameSelectorAttribute
{
    public override bool IsValidName(ControllerContext controllerContext, string actionName, MethodInfo methodInfo)
    {
        if (actionName.Equals(methodInfo.Name, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
            return true;

        var request = controllerContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request;
        return request[methodInfo.Name] != null;
    }
}

Actions decorated with it:

[HttpParamAction]
public ActionResult Save(MyModel model)
{
    // ...
}

[HttpParamAction]
public ActionResult Publish(MyModel model)
{
    // ...
}

HTML/Razor

@using (@Html.BeginForm())
{
    <!-- form content here -->
    <input type="submit" name="Save" value="Save" />
    <input type="submit" name="Publish" value="Publish" />
}

name attribute of submit button should match action/method name

This way you do not have to hard-code urls in javascript

Solution 2:

You can do it with jquery, just put two methods to submit for to diffrent urls, for example with this form:

<form id="myForm">
    <%-- form data inputs here ---%>
    <button id="edit">Edit</button>
    <button id="validate">Validate</button>
</form>

you can use this script (make sure it is located in the View, in order to use the Url.Action attribute):

<script type="text/javascript">
      $("#edit").click(function() {
          var form = $("form#myForm");
          form.attr("action", "@Url.Action("Edit","MyController")");
          form.submit();
      });

      $("#validate").click(function() {
          var form = $("form#myForm");
          form.attr("action", "@Url.Action("Validate","MyController")");
          form.submit();
      });
</script>

Solution 3:

If you are working in asp.net with razor, and you want to control multiple submit button event.then this answer will guide you. Lets for example we have two button, one button will redirect us to "PageA.cshtml" and other will redirect us to "PageB.cshtml".

@{
  if (IsPost)
    {
       if(Request["btn"].Equals("button_A"))
        {
          Response.Redirect("PageA.cshtml");
        }
      if(Request["btn"].Equals("button_B"))
        {
          Response.Redirect("PageB.cshtml");
        }
  }
}
<form method="post">
   <input type="submit" value="button_A" name="btn"/>;
   <input type="submit" value="button_B" name="btn"/>;          
</form>

Solution 4:

Here is a good eplanation: ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form

In 2 words:
you may analize value of submitted button in yout action
or
make separate actions with your version of ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (which I personaly prefer and suggest).