MVC3 EditorFor readOnly

Question

I want to make readOnly with EditorFor in edit page.

I tried to put readonly and disabled as:

<div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.userName, new { disabled = "disabled", @readonly = "readonly" })
    </div>

However, it does not work. How can I make to disable edit this field?

Thank you.

Answer 1

The EditorFor html helper does not have overloads that take HTML attributes. In this case, you need to use something more specific like TextBoxFor:

<div class="editor-field">
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.userName, new 
        { disabled = "disabled", @readonly = "readonly" })
</div>

You can still use EditorFor, but you will need to have a TextBoxFor in a custom EditorTemplate:

public class MyModel
{
    [UIHint("userName")]
    public string userName { ;get; set; }
}

Then, in your Views/Shared/EditorTemplates folder, create a file userName.cshtml. In that file, put this:

@model string
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m, new { disabled = "disabled", @readonly = "readonly" })