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copied!<p>I need to ensure that an application I am developing is accessable and also works with JavaScript turned off. I just need a pointer to assist with the following.</p> <p>I had 3 'chained' select boxes and I wanted JavaScript enabled clients to have a nice Ajax experience. I can easily write the required functionality to populate the chained boxes on the change event of the preceeding select using jQuery and JSON with a WCF service. However what about the non JavaScript client?</p> <p>Would I wrap a submit next to the select and place these inside their own form to post back with a certain action or different querstring parameter? Can the same controller give me a partial JSON response as well as feeding the full HTML response. Can anyone point me to a good demo that utilises both JSON and normal HTTP posts to produce the same result in ASP.NET MVC. All ASP.NET MVC demo/examples I see forget about the non JavaScript enabled client.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>But isn't that true for Ajax calls using the Microsoft Ajax client library if I read it corectly - which I am wanting to avoid and use only jQuery - apologies should have mentioned that.</p> <p>Also I would prefer not to put that noise everywhere in the controllers (reminds me of ispostback from webforms...shudder).</p> <p>It's a shame there is no attribute that I can use on a controller like with [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] but for content types e.g [AcceptType(httpTypes.Json)].</p> <p>There must be a better way than using that if statement everywhere.....</p>

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