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jsanchez
jsanchez

Reputation: 1

How to Change an EditorFor to a DropdownFor in MVC4?

I have a controller, model and view and I am trying to make an already existing @html.editoFor to a @html.dropdownfor so I can limit the user to select only three possible values (Open, Close, Onhold).

To be more specific, I want to change the input box created by an editorFor in my Create and Edit action of my controller to a selection box if possible.

If that isnt possible, then I was wondering how can I provide the model with three default values to accept so only those values can be submited to the DB...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1134

Answers (1)

Steen Tøttrup
Steen Tøttrup

Reputation: 3835

You can easily change the EditorFor, but unfortunately it's based on the type of the property, so if you have a string in your model, and you change the EditorFor, you're changing it for all strings where you use EditorFor.

If you create a custom object, containing the value, and maybe the three possible values, it's easy to create a custom EditorFor for this.

Take a look here: http://buildstarted.com/2010/09/10/overriding-displayfor-and-editorfor-to-create-custom-outputs-for-mvc/

(This is for version 3, but I haven't read anywhere that it has been changed for version 4, so give it a go)

Upvotes: 1

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