Is it possible when using Html.TextBoxFor to override the name attribute?
I have tried with no success. I need to use TextBoxFor to get client side validation to work, however for reasons I won't go into I need the name of the textbox to be different from the generated one.
I have tried the following:
#Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Data, new { name = Model.Key + "_Data", id = Model.Key + "_Data" })
Which works for ID but not name. Is this possible?
Update: Looking into the code for TextBoxFor. It doesn't look like there is an easy way. Hopefully someone can prove me wrong.
Rob, actually there is a much simpler way. Instead of name, use Name:
#Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Data, new { Name = Model.Key + "_Data", id = Model.Key + "_Data" })
Are you asking this because you want to apply a prefix to the name? If so, you can do this by setting ViewData.TemplateInfo.HtmlFieldPrefix in your Controller.
I learnt a lot about this stuff from Brad Wilson's blog.
EditorFor has an overload where you can supply the name attribute as a parameter:
#Html.EditorFor(expression, null, name)
Try EditorFor. you can pass string as template name if you want to make sure textbox is rendered even if property type is not string. If property is string already, it does not need templatename explicitly to render textbox, so you can pass null. Note that it does not require id parameter explicitly, it will infer it from element name. And all the validation things are still active with EditorFor
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.Data, "string", Model.Key + "_Data")
It is called Microsoft GOTCHA...
Use the name in caps, like this
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Reply.Answer, new { Name = "Whatyouwant" })
ben's answer got me what I was looking for except you need to wrap in in Html.Raw
#Html.Raw(Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Data).ToString().Replace("Data", "NewData"))
a little bit "unpretty"=), try:
#Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Data).ToString().Replace("Data", "NewData")
For me, it works! I hope that help!
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.Nome, new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control", #maxlength = "80", #id = "NomeFilter", #Name = "NomeFilter" } })
#Html.EditorFor(Model => Model.Something, "name", "name", new {#class = "form-control" })
Not sure which of those two string parameters in the middle do the work, but it worked only when I typed both of them.
For this example, I was disabling form fields based on permissions, but still showing them. I had a hidden field to send the value to the controller, but wanted a different field name in the EditorFor.
First param after model value represents the "name" property, second is the new name.
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.UserName, "name", "UserNameDisabled", new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control", #disabled = "disabled"} });
Results in:
<input class="form-control text-box single-line" disabled="disabled" id="UserNameDisabled" name="UserNameDisabled" type="text" value="someEnteredValue" />
Keep it simple, your already providing the ID you should simply be able to use the method "TextBox" instead of "TextBoxFor" and it will work fine client side and server side. In addition, although the accepted answer will work but will produce duplicate Name attributes on your tag if you inspect it using a browser. The below solution does not have that problem.
MvcHtmlString Html.TextBox(string name, string value, object htmlAttributes)
#Html.TextBox(Model.Key + "_Data", Model.Key, new { id = Model.Key + "_Data" }
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Im kinda stuck, I have a drop down that I am trying to combine two fields from the same table into. Its kinda working, here is what I get:
The offending drop down list
As you can see, im pulling stuff I dont want into it, and im not pulling in my last name.
Here is my edit controller:
var DocList =
db.Doctors
.Select(s => new
{
Value = s.ID,
FirstN = s.FirstName,
SurN = s.Surname,
})
;
ViewBag.Doctor = new SelectList(DocList, "FirstN", "SurN", episode.Doctor.ID);
and here is my razor snippet:
#Html.DropDownList("docTest")
What do you guys think is going wrong here? Thanks in advance! :)
Looks like you may be needing to do something like this (it will give the dropdown the id of "docTest"):
#Html.DropDownList("docTest", (SelectList)ViewBag.DoctorOLD, "Place Holder Text", new { #class = "someClass" })
but you may need different functionality, I cannot tell from the amount of code supplied.You may also look into using #html.DropDownListFor if you need to bind the drop down value to a model property.
This SO post here does a great job of explaining html helper drop down list.
You are not binding the value to drop down list.Use below code to get the values
#Html.DropDownList("docTest",(IEnumerable<SelectListItem>)ViewBag.DoctorOLD)
Okay here is the solution im still pretty green at this so where I came unstuck was knowing the overloads. Let me try to explain (and correct me if im wrong)
Okay so we invoke our list. Now our first overload is the ieneumerable, this gets our bunch of stuff we want in our list. Next we want our value field, which is the column in your table that other tables use to link to it, in most cases its the ID column.
Next is the string. In my case its "FullName" and is basically made up of the FirstName and Surname from within my Doctors table.
Anyway if your dyslexic like me just look at the code below and pick it apart :)
The Controller:
ViewData["docFullDetails"] =
new SelectList((from s in db.Doctors
select new
{
FullName = (s.FirstName + s.Surname),
ID = s.ID
}),
"ID",
"FullName");
The View:
<div class="form-control">
#Html.DropDownList("docFullDetails")
#Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Doctor)
</div>
In your controller you should populate your dropdown list like
ViewBag.Doctors = new SelectList(db.Doctors.Select(d => new { d.Id, FullName = d.FirstName + " " + d.LastName }),
"Id", "FullName");
And then in view create dropdown with razor
#Html.DropDownList("DoctorId", ViewBag.Doctors as SelectList, "Select doctor...", new { #class = "form-control" })
Your model for form that you are creating probably should have DoctorId property which you are binding from dropdown
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.DoctorId, ViewBag.Doctors as SelectList, "Select doctor...", new { #class = "form-control" })
It is possibly a mistake in my syntax, but I have been unable to set a default value for my EditorFor in my view using ViewBag.
I have checked that the value in the ViewBag.FirstName is being passed through correctly, it is fine. However, the field displays with no value.
My statement is:
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.Person.FirstName, new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control" } , #Value = ViewBag.FirstName })
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Apologies for the simplicity of my question.
You should really just do model binding the normal way: by assigning the value of the model property. ViewBag is unmaintainable and not strongly-typed.
If you really do need ViewBag for some reason, just move your assignment to #Value inside your htmlAttributes object, like so:
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.Person.FirstName, new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "form-control", #Value = ViewBag.FirstName } })
I know this is an old answer and thanks to johnnyRose for the correct one. I simply wanted to add that I was still not able to get the #value passed with it and it was because of the #Value a simple matter of case v=V.. Wanted to share my ignorance in hopes of helping another. :)
I am trying to populate textarea using the input value. But it is not working. Any solution to this issue?
#Html.EditorFor(model => model.ModelName, new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "textbox-css", #Value = "ViewData.Model.ModelName" } })
You can remove quotes from #Value = "ViewData.Model.ModelName", because you are sending a string to Value property, not the content of ModelName property.
But why don't you use the TextArea helper? Like:
#Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.ModelName, new { htmlAttributes = new { #class = "textbox-css" })
It's not common set the value property like you are doing, I don't know if it works, actually. I think this is not a good way to do that. You should use the TextAreaFor(x => x.Property) or EditFor(x => x.Property) directly, instead of set the value property, as I said.
you don't need to manually populate the value property with the ViewData, remove the #Value = "ViewData.Model.ModelName". I think the problem is your ViewData name conflict with the property of the model (both have the name "ModelName").
Try changing the ViewData property name to something else. Works for me when I have an issue with unpopulated DropDownListFor
That is a tricky question because I want to add Html Attributes to the EditorFor() but do not want to replace the ones that was already created. Let me explain:
I have a default Editor Template for string.cshtml with the following code:
#{
var htmlAttributes = ViewData;
htmlAttributes["class"] = "text-box single-line form-control";
htmlAttributes["placeholder"] = ViewData.ModelMetadata.Watermark ?? ViewData.ModelMetadata.DisplayName;
htmlAttributes["title"] = ViewData.ModelMetadata.Watermark ?? ViewData.ModelMetadata.DisplayName;
}
#Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, htmlAttributes)
It is used to always add the following class, placeholder and title, based on the DisplayName DataAnnotation, for the Form Inputs, it is quite handy!
But the problem is that I'm having trouble adding the disable attribute for one specific Form Input with the common code:
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.Field, new { htmlAttributes = new { disabled = "" } })
When the Form Input is with a field that is not a string, it will not follow the created EditorTemplate and it will work with this exactly code, but when it is a string, the EditorTemplate replaces the Html Attributes.
Does anyone has any clue on this?
Turns out there was a few dumb errors, first of all the declaration on the EditorFor() field was wrong, the correct one is this:
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.Field, new { #disabled = "" })
The second point is to keep using the incoming htmlAttributes in the string.cshtml EditorTemplate, replacing the class property definition:
htmlAttributes["class"] = "text-box single-line form-control";
For:
htmlAttributes["class"] = htmlAttributes["class"] + "text-box single-line form-control";
In this way, the incoming html attributes is just concatenated with the new default ones.
I am kind of stumped because, I want to format the value and add a html attribute for css class.
If I use #Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DateModified)
- I can add html attribute but formatting does not work via DisplayFormat attribute on the member.
If I use #Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified)
- Formatting works but I cannot add html attribute
If I use #Html.TextBox("DateModified", Model.DateModified, ...)
- I get null reference exception when Model is null when the form is in add mode
What is the best way to achieve this?
I ended up solving this by creating a custom editor template for my date picker as so:
Shared/EditorTemplates/DateTime.cshtml
#model System.DateTime?
#Html.TextBox("", Model.HasValue ? Model.Value.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") : string.Empty, new { #class = "date-picker" })
Then in my original page continue to use
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified)
You could...
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DateModified, new { Value = Model.DateModified.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"), #class = "superCoolClassName"})
Use #Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified), because otherwise the DisplayFormat attribute will have no effect.
To add further attributes like a CSS class, you have to create an editor template for the DateTime.
Create a file EditorTemplates/DateTime.cshtml with the following content:
#Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, new
{
#class="date"
})
Please note that the value of the TextBox is not set with the Model directly, but rather with the TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, because that value will be formatted according to the DisplayFormat attribute while the Model not. (This took me quite some time to realize. :))
In simple cases this might be enough, e.g. if the CSS class can be the same for all date editors.
If you want to parametrize the attribute, you can do that as well, passing the attribute value parameter to the EditorFor.
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified, new { #class = "someClass" })
However, this parameter will be not automagically delegated to the HTML control as attribute, but you have to "handle it" in the template explicitly. According to my experiences you can access this parameter value in the ViewData in the template, so the parametrized template looks like this:
#Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, new
{
#class=ViewData["class"]
})
To prevent hardcoding the key/value pairs listed in EditorFor , convert the ViewData object to a Dictionary and pass that dictionary object to TextBox.
eg
#Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified, "Template", new { #class = "someClass", size=8 , htmlTag="custom" })
And in the template you have
#Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, ViewData.ToDictionary(c=>c.Key,c=>.Value))
To show json date in textbox (cshtml):
var d1 = ui.item.IssueDate;
var d = new Date(parseInt(d1.slice(6, -2)));
var Issdate = ("0" + (d.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '/' +
("0" + d.getDate()).slice(-2) + '/' +
d.getFullYear().toString();
$('#IssueDate').val(Issdate);