Ajax success when a view is returned - asp.net

Question

I'm struggling to return a view or partial view with Ajax. Whenever I change the return type to something that isn't JSon the ajax command never succeeds. I need to return a partial view because I want to return a lot of data back.
This is my current code:
(Controller)
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AjaxTestController(string Input)
{
string Results = Input + " -- TestTestTest";
return PartialView("Test", Results);
//return new JsonResult() { };
}
(View)
function AjaxTest() {
alert("test");
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "Home/AjaxTestController",
data: "Input=Test11111",
success: function () {
alert("Success!");
}
});
Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the $.post command for that:
function AjaxTest() {
alert("test");
$.post({
url: "Home/AjaxTestController",
data: "Input=Test11111",
success: function (response) {
alert(response);
}
});

Answer 2

try the following:
$(function () {
$('#submit').live('click', function () {
AjaxTest();
});
});
function AjaxTest() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: '#Url.Action("AjaxTestController", "Home")',
data: { Input: "Test - " + new Date() },
success: function (data) {
$('#partialResult').html(data);
},
error: function (xhr, err) {
alert(xhr.responseText);
}
});
};
inside your view and ensure that you have your target div set up for the partial to be populated into:
<div id="partialResult"></div>
also, for the example above, I added a button to the view to initiate the ajax (purely for testing):
<input type="button" value="Submit" id="submit" />
your 'partialview' should look something like this:
#model string
<h2>
Partial Test</h2>
<p>
#Model
</p>
no other changes are required to the existing action for this to now function as required.
[UPDATE] - I changed the AjaxTest() method to include the error event (the result of which is captured in an alert). hopefully, this may help further.

Answer 3

partial View is different than view you have to specify the whole path to the partial view or have it in share folder. otherwise is going to return not found and never success. any way this always work for me, try
partialView("~/Views/ControllerView/Test.cshtml")