HTML.TextBoxFor disabled not passing value

Question

I have the following bit in my view :

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PersonnelId, new { disabled = "disabled" })

In my controller I have this :

if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
    PersonnelFacade.SavePerson(person);
    return RedirectToAction("Index");
}

Now when I check the person.PersonnelId it is empty. When I remove the {disabled = "disabled" } it works fine but then I can change the PersonnelId which is not what I want to do.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try 2 values

1. PersonnelIdForDisplay
2. PersonnelId

Then on your view

1. @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PersonnelIdForDisplay, new { disabled = "disabled" })
2. @Html.HiddenFor(p => p.PersonnelId)