Why is my hidden input writing: value=“value” instead of true/false?

Question

I have an MVC4 site, with (as part of a hidden form):

The value o

Answer 1

This behaviour changed between MVC3 and MVC4. In MVC3, if you have:

it would write very literally:

However, in MVC4, it follows the "checkbox" etc rules, so if the value is true you get:

and if it is false it is omitted completely:

To get around this, consider .ToString():

which then follows string rules rather than boolean rules.