MVC 4 HiddenFor field not appearing in rendered markup

Question

Am using MVC 4 and want to maintain some values on postback, so they're going into hidden fields. In essence:

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    Html.HiddenFor(model => model.EventId);
    Html.HiddenFor(model => model.paymentMethodId);
}

But the hidden fields are not appearing in the rendered markup and are therefore - obviously - missing on postback.

Answer 1

You need to add a @, @Html.HiddenFor(). Otherwise you're just executing the helper method, but not actually doing anything with the output.