control name in TextBoxFor in MVC3

Question

Is it possible to control the name attribute of say a text boxt when using TextBoxFor?

this code in the view

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SearchParams         


        

Answer 1

It seems as though the TextBoxFor method will not allow you to use the @name key as an htmlAttribute. This makes a little bit of sense because if it did allow you to override the HTML name attribute, the value would not get binded to your model properly in a form POST.

Instead of using...

@Html.TextBoxFor(x => Model.MyProperty, new { @name = "desired_name" }); // does not work

I ended up having to use...

@Html.TextBox("desired_name", Model.MyProperty); // works

I am not exactly sure why the first option does not work but hopefully this helps get around it.