Pass ASP MVC3 textbox value to Ajax call - ajax

Question

I have a simple ASP MVC3 #Html.TextBox that I'm using to input search criteria. However, I need to append the value to the URL in an Ajax call as a query string. How would I go about this? Below is the HTML in the view:
<div class="editor-field">
#Html.TextBox("searchString")
<span onclick='GetCompName(searchString);'>
<input type="image" src="#Url.Content("~/Content/Images/Filter.bmp")" alt="Filter" />
</span>
</div>
And here is the Ajax
function GetCompName(searchString) {
var request = $.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'http://quahildy01/OrganizationData.svc/AccountSet?$select=AccountId,Name,neu_UniqueId&$filter=startswith(Name,' + searchString + ')',
dataType: 'html',
success: function (data) {
alert(data);
},
error: function (data) {
alert("Unable to process your resquest at this time.");
}
});
}
I will also want to output the returned value into another text box. If anyone knows how to do that that would be really helpful as well. Thanks!

Answer 1

the basic problem with your code is the searchString in onclick='GetCompName(searchString); always gonna be literally "serchString", you must specified the parameter in base the value in the input, like this $('.searchbox').val()
keep your javascript unobstructive.
HTML code
<div class="editor-field">
#Html.TextBox("searchString", null, new { #class = "serachbox" })
<span class="searchbox-trigger">
<input type="image" src="#Url.Content("~/Content/Images/Filter.bmp")" alt="Filter" />
</span>
</div>
Set de handler for the event span click
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.searchbox-trigger').click(GetProgramDetails);
});
and your ajax request
function GetProgramDetails() {
var request = $.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'http://quahildy01/OrganizationData.svc/AccountSet?$select=AccountId,Name,neu_UniqueId&$filter=startswith(Name,' + $('.searchbox').val() + ')',
dataType: 'html',
success: function (data) {
alert(data);
},
error: function (data) {
alert("Unable to process your resquest at this time.");
}
});
}