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Reputation: 2875

MVC 4 Razor Html helper DispayFor not detecting string as boolean

I'm looping through rows and trying to make use of my DataTable Model.

    <td>@Html.DisplayFor(d => d.Rows[i].ItemArray[j])</td>

Im passing in five values per Row, per ItemArray, the first two are strings, the other three are strings but are either "True" or "False". I thought DisplayFor would detect this and create a CheckBox for the boolean strings.

I get five strings. Do I need additional params?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038780

I thought DisplayFor would detect this and create a CheckBox for the boolean strings.

DisplayFor never creates any input fields, unless of course you write a custom template that will generate a checkbox (but I wouldn't do that). That's the whole point of display templates. It's for displaying only.

If you want to generate input fields use an editor template (Html.EditorFor).

Take a look at how the default templates look like.

Upvotes: 3

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