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How to create a readonly textbox in ASP.NET MVC3 Razor

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How do I make a TextBox ReadOnly in razor view?

Solution 1 In razor, everything is easy just add @readonly attribute to the code will do the needful.

How do you make an editor read only in MVC?

EditorFor(model => model. userName, new { htmlAttributes = new { disabled = "disabled", @readonly = "readonly" } }) .


@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.userCode, new { @readonly="readonly" })

You are welcome to make an HTML Helper for this, but this is simply just an HTML attribute like any other. Would you make an HTML Helper for a text box that has other attributes?


UPDATE: Now it's very simple to add HTML attributes to the default editor templates. It neans instead of doing this:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.userCode, new { @readonly="readonly" })

you simply can do this:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.userCode, new { htmlAttributes = new { @readonly="readonly" } })

Benefits: You haven't to call .TextBoxFor, etc. for templates. Just call .EditorFor.


While @Shark's solution works correctly, and it is simple and useful, my solution (that I use always) is this one: Create an editor-template that can handles readonly attribute:

  1. Create a folder named EditorTemplates in ~/Views/Shared/
  2. Create a razor PartialView named String.cshtml
  3. Fill the String.cshtml with this code:

    @if(ViewData.ModelMetadata.IsReadOnly) {
        @Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue,
            new { @class = "text-box single-line readonly", @readonly = "readonly", disabled = "disabled" })
    } else {
        @Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue,
            new { @class = "text-box single-line" })
    }
    
  4. In model class, put the [ReadOnly(true)] attribute on properties which you want to be readonly.

For example,

public class Model {
    // [your-annotations-here]
    public string EditablePropertyExample { get; set; }

    // [your-annotations-here]
    [ReadOnly(true)]
    public string ReadOnlyPropertyExample { get; set; }
}

Now you can use Razor's default syntax simply:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.EditablePropertyExample)
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.ReadOnlyPropertyExample)

The first one renders a normal text-box like this:

<input class="text-box single-line" id="field-id" name="field-name" />

And the second will render to;

<input readonly="readonly" disabled="disabled" class="text-box single-line readonly" id="field-id" name="field-name" />

You can use this solution for any type of data (DateTime, DateTimeOffset, DataType.Text, DataType.MultilineText and so on). Just create an editor-template.


The solution with TextBoxFor is OK, but if you don't want to see the field like EditBox stylish (it might be a little confusing for the user) involve changes as follows:

  1. Razor code before changes

    <div class="editor-field">
         @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Text)
         @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Text)
    </div>
    
  2. After changes

    <!-- New div display-field (after div editor-label) -->
    <div class="display-field">
        @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Text)
    </div>
    
    <div class="editor-field">
        <!-- change to HiddenFor in existing div editor-field -->
        @Html.HiddenFor(model => model.Text)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Text)
    </div>
    

Generally, this solution prevents field from editing, but shows value of it. There is no need for code-behind modifications.


With credits to the previous answer by @Bronek and @Shimmy:

This is like I have done the same thing in ASP.NET Core:

<input asp-for="DisabledField" disabled="disabled" />
<input asp-for="DisabledField" class="hidden" />

The first input is readonly and the second one passes the value to the controller and is hidden. I hope it will be useful for someone working with ASP.NET Core.