Submitting AjaxForm with jQuery in ASP.NET MVC

Answer 1

I think it may work if you use the trigger method to generate the submit event, but I think there's a less complicated way to do this using jQuery.

<div class="panel" id="blogPostPanel">
    <img src="/images/ajax-loader.gif" alt="ajax-loader" />
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
         $('#blogPostPanel').load( '<%= Url.Action( "LatestBlogPosts", "Blog" ) %>' );
    });
</script>

Answer 2

You need to call the __doPostBack javascript function if you're expecting a traditional postback.

http://geekswithblogs.net/mnf/archive/2005/11/04/59081.aspx