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NoviceDeveloper
NoviceDeveloper

Reputation: 1290

@Html.CheckBoxFor issue in razor view?

I have a form that respond to a submit button.

I have my one checkbox as following:

  @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.CheckBoxValue)

How can I get if checked YES otherwise NO preferably as string in my model ..

  public bool CheckBoxValue { get; set; } OR
  public string CheckBoxValue { get; set; }

Please help.

Thanks

Update

This was the way to go.

   @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.CheckBoxValue)

   public bool CheckBoxValue { get; set; }

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3580

Answers (1)

David
David

Reputation: 218837

Are you just looking for a user-friendly display of the value? That should happen in the view, not in the model. Something like this:

@Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.CheckBoxValue)
<!-- some other markup, blah blah blah -->
@(Model.CheckBoxValue ? "Yes" : "No")

As much as possible, the model should contain only the structure and logical functionality of the data. Any user-friendliness or anything that users see and interact with should go in the view.

Edit:

Based on your comment, you could add something like this to the model:

public string CheckBoxDisplayValue
{
    get
    {
        return CheckBoxValue ? "Yes" : "No";
    }
}

Note: This is in addition to the bool property CheckBoxValue which is what gets bound to the view, not in place of it. The model needs a boolean, so CheckBoxValue is that boolean. All this does is add a read-only property to the model to show a user-friendly display for the boolean value.

But this is not recommended. It sounds like you have an end goal that you're not specifying in the question here, and there's probably a better way to achieve that end goal.

Upvotes: 3

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