Basic filtering example

[Ben]

Hi guys, we've been trying to get a basic search working on the grid, but with no luck. The example I tried to follow was:

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/razor/grid/filtering 

Which contains the code:

@using (Html.Configurator("Filter by ...")
              .PostTo("Filtering", "Grid")
              .Begin())
   {
    <p>
        <label for="startsWith"><strong>Contact Name</strong> starts with:</label>
        @Html.TextBox("startsWith", "Paul")
    </p>

    <button class="t-button t-state-default" type="submit">Apply</button>
 }

Now after fishing around I found out the Html.Configurator class isn't actually included and supposedly isn't needed either. So how do you do this then?

[Dadv]

Hi,

Html.Configurator is a warp of Html.BeginForm :

@using (Html.Configurator("Filter by ...")
              .PostTo("Filtering", "Grid")
              .Begin())
   { 
    <p>
        <label for="startsWith"><strong>Contact Name</strong> starts with:</label>
        @Html.TextBox("startsWith", "Paul") 
    </p>
    
    <button class="t-button t-state-default" type="submit">Apply</button>
 } 

Is the same than

@using (Html.BeginForm("Filtering", "Grid",FormMethod.Post,new{@class="configurator"})
   { 
<div>	<h3 class="legend">Filter by ...</h3>
    <p>
        <label for="startsWith"><strong>Contact Name</strong> starts with:</label>
        @Html.TextBox("startsWith", "Paul") 
    </p>
    
    <button class="t-button t-state-default" type="submit">Apply</button>
</div>
 } 

[Ben]

Thanks Dadv, that's cleared it up. The examples need a few comments to help out the new guys (the ones that usually need examples) IMHO.