title: Using Custom paths or absolute URI with Html.BeginForm()
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1965103/html-beginform-with-an-absolute-url">Html.BeginForm() with an absolute URL?</a>  </p>
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  <p>How to put and absolute URI in the action attribute of the <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> tag generated by the <code>Html.BeginForm()</code> MVC3 Html helper. I am using MVC3 validation and do not want to lose it by writing my own Form tags.</p>
  
  <p>I tried out both <code>Html.BeginForm(new { action ="http://absolute.com"})</code> and <code>Html.BeginForm(new { @action ="http://absolute.com"})</code> and the rendered html was <code>&lt;form action="/Pro/Contact/http%3a/absolute.com/"&gt;</code>. As you can see it is being appended instead of replaced.</p>