html-helper

I'm handling an onchange event with a selected value by simple HTML like this: <select onchange="location = this.value;"> <option value="/product/categoryByPage?PageSize=15" selected="selected">15</option> <option value="/product/categoryByPage?PageSize=30" selected="selected">30</option> <option value="/product/categoryByPage?PageSize=50" selected="selected">50</option> </select> Doing it like this: List<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>(); string[] itemArray = {"15","30","50"}; for (int i = 0; i < itemArray.Count(); i++) { items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = itemArray[i],

I'm not seeing a way to create, via the HtmlHelper , a SelectListItem that will spit out the following HTML: <option disabled="disabled">don't click this</option> The only properties SelectListItem has are: new SelectListItem{ Name = "don't click this", Value = string.Empty, Selected = false } The only option I see is to Subclass the SelectListItem to add an Enabled property to get the value to the view Not use the HTML helper for DropDownList Create a new HtmlHelper extension that accepts my new EnablableSelectList and adds my disabled attribute. Jab This is something I might try before

I'm writing my first asp.net mvc application and I have a question about custom Html helpers: For making a form, you can use: <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%> *stuff here* <% } %> I would like to do something similar with a custom HTML helper. In other words, I want to change: Html.BeginTr(); Html.Td(day.Description); Html.EndTr(); into: using Html.BeginTr(){ Html.Td(day.Description); } Is this possible? ybo Here is a possible reusable implementation in c# : class DisposableHelper : IDisposable { private Action end; // When the object is created, write "begin" function public DisposableHelper

Simple question, if you use the Html Helper from ASP.NET MVC Framework 1 it is easy to set a default value on a textbox because there is an overload Html.TextBox(string name, object value) . When I tried using the Html.TextBoxFor method, my first guess was to try the following which did not work: <%: Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Age, new { value = "0"}) %> Should I just stick with Html.TextBox(string, object) for now? you can try this <%= Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Age, new { @Value = "0"}) %> This should work for MVC3 & MVC4 @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Age, new { @Value = "12" }) If you want it to be a

I would like to assign a static list of items in a SelectList() to a Html.DropDownList() in ASP.NET MVC, what is the best practice? I was about to try to find a way to use new SelectList(new {key = "value"}... but one, that didn't work, and two, would I be breaking a law here, should my static list be declared in ViewData anyway and passed as IList/IENumerable ? It is a best practice not to create the SelectList in the view. You should create it in the controller and pass it using the ViewData. Example: var list = new SelectList(new [] { new {ID="1",Name="name1"}, new{ID="2",Name="name2"}, new

I am using Steve Sanderson's BeginCollectionItem helper and ran into a problem. I have a form that has an option to add unlimited reward fields. I am using his helper since it solved this problem with how to keep generating the fields and not have to worry about how to bind it when the form gets submitted. I have in this same form some checkboxes that there is an unknown amount. The difference with this one versus the rewards is the unknown amount will become known after a database call and will be known by the time the code gets to the view. So my code looks like this public class FrmVm {