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POWhy doesn't this form call my controller action in ASP.NET MVC?
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    copied!<p>I'm attempting to make a TinyURL clone in ASP.NET MVC as a learning project.</p> <p>Right now, all I want is to be able to submit new URLs to my /Home/Create action via a form.</p> <p><img src="https://imgur.com/JJOP0.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>I have my LINQ expression all setup, I have my routing setup, and I have my view setup but something is wrong with my setup. </p> <p>Routing:</p> <pre><code> routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name "", // URL with parameters new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" } // Parameter defaults ); routes.MapRoute( "Redirect", "{hash}", new { controller = "Home", action = "RequestLink", hash = "" } ); </code></pre> <p>These routes allow me to be able to go to my website, www.tinyurlclone.com/ and if nothing is passed ti will simply go to my Home/Index() action. However, if you put anything after the slash, it will consider that a Link Hash and attempt to retrieve the hash.</p> <p>My HomeController is as follows:</p> <pre><code>[HandleError] public class HomeController : Controller { TinyGetRepository repo = new TinyGetRepository(); public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } public ActionResult Create(String url) { String hash = repo.addLink(url); ViewData["LinkHash"] = hash; return View(); } public ActionResult RequestLink(String hash) { String url = repo.getLink(hash); return Redirect(url); } } </code></pre> <p>My repo class has all my LINQ expressions in it for dealing with the database and I don't really need to include them because it isn't relevant to this question.</p> <p>Finally, my basic Home/Index() view (used for submitting urls) is as follows:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" %&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" &gt; &lt;head runat="server"&gt; &lt;title&gt;Index&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 14pt"&gt;TinyGet &lt;em&gt;(beta)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma"&gt;Reduce your long links to smaller ones to keep them more memorable....&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;% using(Html.BeginForm("Create", "Home")) %&gt; &lt;% { %&gt; &lt;%= Html.TextBox("url") %&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Shorten Link!" /&gt; &lt;% } %&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, my form simply isn't firing any methods when I click submit.</p> <p>Furthermore, if I view the source of my generated HTML I can see that it didn't make my Form's action correctly, it reads:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="" method="post"&gt;&lt;input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Shorten Link!" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>Why is the HTML helper putting "" as the action when it ~should~ be putting /Home/Create? Why isn't my /Home/Create action method being called? Even if I don't use the Html helpers and specify the <code>&lt;form</code>> tag manually it throws errors.</p> <p>What is wrong here?</p> <p>Source for project: <a href="http://www.filedropper.com/tinyget" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a></p>
 

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