Paging/Sorting not working on web grid used in Partial View - asp.net-mvc-3

Question

I have a partial view where I am showing a web grid depending upon a value selected from a page.
For drop down I have used
#Html.DropDownListFor(
x => x.ItemId,
new SelectList(Model.Items, "Value", "Text"),
new {
id = "myddl",
data_url = Url.Action("Foo", "SomeController")
}
)
For drop down item select I have used
$(function() {
$('#myddl').change(function() {
var url = $(this).data('url');
var value = $(this).val();
$('#result').load(url, { value: value })
});
});
and below is my action
public ActionResult Foo(string value)
{
SomeModel model = ...
return PartialView(model);
}
everything works good, but when I try doing a paging or sorting on my webgrid which is on my partial view I am showing a new window with the web grid.
I wanted to be able to sort and page on the same page without postback
Please help

Answer 1

The following example works fine for me.
Model:
public class MyViewModel
{
public string Bar { get; set; }
}
Controller:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult Foo(string value)
{
var model = Enumerable.Range(1, 45).Select(x => new MyViewModel
{
Bar = "bar " + value + " " + x
});
return PartialView(model);
}
}
Index.cshtml view:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('#myddl').change(function () {
var url = $(this).data('url');
var value = $(this).val();
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'GET',
cache: false,
data: { value: value },
success: function (result) {
$('#result').html(result);
}
});
});
});
</script>
#Html.DropDownList(
"id",
new[] {
new SelectListItem { Value = "val1", Text = "value 1" },
new SelectListItem { Value = "val2", Text = "value 2" },
new SelectListItem { Value = "val3", Text = "value 3" },
},
new {
id = "myddl",
data_url = Url.Action("Foo", "Home")
}
)
<div id="result">
#Html.Action("Foo")
</div>
Foo.cshtml partial:
#model IEnumerable<MyViewModel>
#{
var grid = new WebGrid(
canPage: true,
rowsPerPage: 10,
canSort: true,
ajaxUpdateContainerId: "grid"
);
grid.Bind(Model, rowCount: Model.Count());
grid.Pager(WebGridPagerModes.All);
}
#grid.GetHtml(
htmlAttributes: new { id = "grid" },
columns: grid.Columns(
grid.Column("Bar")
)
)
Notice that I have used a GET request to refresh the grid instead of POST because this way the value query string parameter selected in the dropdown is preserved for future sorting and paging.