MVC - Editing a list of objects

Question

I have the following class layout in MVC:

public class ReportModel 
{
    List items;
    string value;
    string anotherValue;
}
         


        

Answer 1

Don't use ElementAt(1) in your lambda expressions => this ruins your input field names. Please read the blog post that Kirill suggested you.

So you could use indexed access:

for (int i = 0; i < Model.items.Count; i++)
{                
    

        

            

                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.items[i].propertyOne)
            
            

                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.items[i].propertyOne)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.items[i].propertyOne)
            
        
        

            

                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.items[i].propertyTwo)
            
            

                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.items[i].propertyTwo)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.items[i].propertyTwo)
            
        
        

            

                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.items[i].propertyThree)
            
            

                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.items[i].propertyThree)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.items[i].propertyThree)
            
        
    
}

Of course in order to have indexer access to the collection this assumes that your items property is declared as either List or SomeItem[]. If it is an IEnumerable it won't work. So simply change the type of this property on your view model.