Can I set text box to readonly when using Html.TextBoxFor?

Question

I have the following tag with a Html.TextBoxFor expression and I want the contents to be read only, is this possible?

<%= Html.TextBoxFor(m => Model.E         


        

Answer 1

In case if you have to apply your custom class you can use

  @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Birthday,   new Dictionary() { {"readonly", "true"}, {"class", "commonField"} } )

Where are

commonField is CSS class

and Birthday could be string field that you probably can use to keep jQuery Datapicker date :)

That's a real life example.