How to create a readonly text using html helper in asp.net mvc?

Question

I want to disable a textbox in the view. So I use following code:

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { readonly="true" })%> 

or

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { enable="false" })%> 

Both of them don't work. what's the solution?

Answer 1

Try

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { @readonly="readonly" })%> 

I'm not sure you have to use the overload with 4 parameters. You should be able to use the one with 3, but you need to append @ to the readonly since readonly is a keyword in C#. And setting @readonly to readonly is XHTML compliant.

Answer 2

Try

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, null, new { @readonly="true" })%> 

instead of

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { @readonly="true" })%> 

If you check the documentation, you can see that the third parameter is not htmlAttributes, as you probably expected.

You need to use the overload with four parameters.