Razor C# - Setting up checkbox values - asp.net-mvc-3

I have my form with my checkbox inputs, and user can edit that. I can save these values in database good, but I don't know how to refill the form, so user can edit it.
This is my ViewBag var:
ViewBag.NewFriends = preferences.NewFriends;// this value is a boolean, false
I try to pre-set values like this:
#using (Html.BeginForm("SavePreferences", "Conta"))
{
#Html.HiddenFor(model => model.ID)
#Html.CheckBox("newFriends", new { #checked = #ViewBag.NewFriends })
#Html.Label("newFriends", "Solicitações de Amigo de Alma")
<p><input type="submit" value="Send" /></p>
}
As HTML checkbox has the value checked="checked", and not true or false, it doesn't work.
#Html.CheckBox has the first parameter as input name, and second a boolean checked(true or false).
My question is how can I easily set up this value? I tried:
#Html.CheckBox("newFriends", ViewBag.NewFriends) // where ViewBag.NewFriends = false
But it doesn't work at all...
Any idea?

Probably extension method CheckBox can't work with dynamic. I tried following example and it works:
#{ bool isNewFriends = ViewBag.NewFriends; }
#Html.CheckBox("newFriends", isNewFriends);

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MVC Razor View update Form on SelectedIndexChange

I have a form in a View that brings together a number of pieces of information (address, telephone etc). All these elements are wrapped up in a view model. There is one section that asks the user to select a county. On selection, I want to be able to show a price based on the county selected.
I came across the following SO question which is close to what I want, but it looks like the action submits the form to a 'change controller'. I naively need to be able to basically call two controllers - one onSelectedChange and the other onSubmit. I'm pretty sure ya can't do this!
Here' what I'm after:
#model ViewOrder
#using (Html.BeginForm("Order", "Home"))
{
#* - textboxes et al - *#
<p>
#Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Counties,
new SelectList(Model.Counties, "CountyId", "County"),
new { #class = "form-control input-sm" })
</p>
<p>
#* - £Price result of dropdown list selection and
add to View Model to add to sub total - *#
</p>
<input type="submit" text = "submit"/>
}
I'm very new to MVC - Could do this easily in webforms (but I'm sticking with MVC!) There must be some form of Ajax action that would allow this. Any suggestions?
First you have a problem with you #Html.DropDownListFor() method. Model.Counties is a complex object (with properties CountyId and County) but you cannot bind a <select> (or any control) to a complex object, only a value type. Your model needs a property (say) public int SelectedCountry { get; set; } and then #Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedCountry, new SelectList(Model.Counties, "CountyId", "County"), ...)
To display the price, you need to handle the .change event of the dropdown, pass the selected value to a controller method, and update the DOM.
Script (based on the property being SelectedCountry)
var url = '#Url.Action("GetPrice", "yourControllerName")';
$('#SelectedCountry').change(function() {
$.getJSON(url, { ID: $(this).val() }, function(data) {
// do something with the data returned by the method, for example
$('#someElement').text(data);
});
});
Controller
public JsonResult GetPrice(int ID)
{
// ID contains the value of the selected country
var data = "some price to return";
return Json(data, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

How to get checked checkbox value from html page to spring mvc controller

im using spring mvc framework with thymeleaf template engine
the problem is , i have 1 page with multiple check box iterated sing thymeleaf th:each iterator.When i clicked multiple check boxes i want to pass check box values to the controller method..
html content
<table>
<tr th:each="q : ${questions}">
<h3 th:text="${q.questionPattern.questionPattern}"></h3>
<div>
<p >
<input type="checkbox" class="ads_Checkbox" th:text="${q.questionName}" th:value="${q.id}" name="id"/>
</p>
</div>
</tr>
</table>
*Controller*
#RequestMapping(value = Array("/saveAssessment"), params = Array({ "save" }))
def save(#RequestParam set: String, id:Long): String = {
var userAccount: UserAccount = secService.getLoggedUserAccount
println(userAccount)
var questionSetQuestion:QuestionSetQuestion=new QuestionSetQuestion
var questionSet: QuestionSet = new QuestionSet
questionSet.setUser(userAccount)
questionSet.setSetName(set)
questionSet.setCreatedDate(new java.sql.Date(new java.util.Date().getTime))
questionSetService.addQuestionSet(questionSet)
var list2: List[Question] = questionService.findAllQuestion
var limit=list2.size
var qustn:Question=null
var a = 1;
for( a <- 1 to limit ){
println( a );
qustn= questionService.findQuestionById(a)
questionSetQuestion.setQuestion(qustn)
questionSetQuestion.setQuestionSet(questionSet)
questionSetQuestion.setCreatedDate(new java.sql.Date(new java.util.Date().getTime))
questionSetQuestionService.addQuestionSetQuestion(questionSetQuestion) } "redirect:/teacher/Assessment.html" }
I think you pretty much have it. With a checkbox, you can only send one piece of information back with the form...that being the value. So if you are trying to determine which checkboxes are checked when the user clicks the submit button, then I would have the checkboxes all use one name...like "id" (exactly like you have). Value is the actual id of the question (again like you have). Once submitted, "id" will be a String array which includes all the values of the checkboxes that were checked.
So your controller method needs to take param called "ids" mapped to parameter "id" which is a string[]. Now for each id, you can call questionService.findQuestionById.
(I'm not a Groovy guru so no code example sry :)
I have used JSTL with JSP and thymeleaf was something new. I read the THYMELEAF documentation.
There is a section which explains multi valued check boxes.
<input type="checkbox"
class="ads_Checkbox"
th:text="${q.questionName}"
th:value="${q.id}" name="id"/>
In the above code we are not binding the value to the field of the command object. Instead try doing this
<input type="checkbox"
class="ads_Checkbox"
th:text="${q.questionName}"
th:field="*{selectedQuestions}"
th:value="${q.id}" />
here the selectedQuestions is an array object present in the spring command object.

Razor textbox, "value" property not showing [duplicate]

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Watermark for Textbox in MVC3
Im switching my HTML code from basic html to use html helpers and Html.TextBoxFor...
This is my old code
<input type="text" disabled="disabled" value="Phone" name="Phone" id="cust-cellphone" class="tonedDown" />
And this is the new version
#Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Customer.Phone_Personal, new { #class = "text-adr-fld tonedDown", #value = "Phone", #disabled = "disabled" })
Everything is working fine, except that the Value property is gone. What I mean is that it's not showing as a default predefined value inside the textbox.
I read that you can use Placeholder, but it doesnt seem to work with IE9 (which is a requirement from my client).
So the question is, how do I add input Value property to the TextboxFor method that works with IE9?
Edit:
There might be a possible workaround somehow.
My original purpose with this is to display a "placeholder like value", ie a default value which shows what the user is supposed to type in the textbox. E.g. the textbox that handles phonenumber should display "Phone", until the user clicks and enters a value.
Does anyone know another way of doing this (except "placeholder" and "value")?
u can set the default value to your model, and then your piece of code will work, else you can try using
#Html.TextBox("Phone_Personal", "Phone", new { #class = "text-adr-fld tonedDown", #disabled = "disabled" }).
If u want to use TextBoxFor, then using
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#Phone_Personal").val("Phone"); // replace Phone_Personal with the ID of the textbox
});
I think you don't pass the model to View method :
return View(model);
Or,the model is null.

How do I set a checkbox in razor view?

I need to check a checkbox by default:
I tried all of these, nothing is checking my checkbox -
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #value = "true" })
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #checked = "true" })
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #checked = true })
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #checked = "checked"})
You should set the AllowRating property to true, preferably in the controller or model.
Like other inputs, the checkbox's state reflects the value of the property.
This works for me:
<input id="AllowRating" type="checkbox" #(Model.AllowRating?"checked='checked'":"") style="" onchange="" />
If you really wants to use HTML Helpers:
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #checked = Model.AllowRating})
Also take into account that if m.AllowRating is false, it will fail to set to status checked in your examples.
The syntax in your last line is correct.
#Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x.Test, new { #checked = "checked" })
That should definitely work. It is the correct syntax. If you have an existing model and AllowRating is set to true then MVC will add the checked attribute automatically. If AllowRating is set to false MVC won't add the attribute however if desired you can using the above syntax.
You can do this with #Html.CheckBoxFor():
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new{#checked=true });
or you can also do this with a simple #Html.CheckBox():
#Html.CheckBox("AllowRating", true) ;
you set AllowRating property to true from your controller or model
#Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AllowRating, new { #checked =Model.AllowRating })
<input type="checkbox" #( Model.Checked == true ? "checked" : "" ) />
only option is to set the value in the controller, If your view is Create then in the
controller action add the empty model, and set the value like,
Public ActionResult Create()
{
UserRating ur = new UserRating();
ur.AllowRating = true;
return View(ur);
}
If we set "true" in model, It'll always true. But we want to set option value for my checkbox we can use this. Important in here is The name of checkbox "AllowRating", It's must name of var in model if not when we post the value not pass in Database.
form of it:
#Html.CheckBox("NameOfVarInModel", true) ;
for you!
#Html.CheckBox("AllowRating", true) ;
I had the same issue, luckily I found the below code
#Html.CheckBoxFor(model => model.As, htmlAttributes: new { #checked = true} )
Check Box Checked By Default - Razor Solution
I did it using Razor , works for me
Razor Code
#Html.CheckBox("CashOnDelivery", CashOnDelivery) (This is a bit or bool value) Razor don't support nullable bool
#Html.CheckBox("OnlinePayment", OnlinePayment)
C# Code
var CashOnDelivery = Convert.ToBoolean(Collection["CashOnDelivery"].Contains("true")?true:false);
var OnlinePayment = Convert.ToBoolean(Collection["OnlinePayment"].Contains("true") ? true : false);

Correct way to bind an mvc3 radiobutton to a model

I have a view that contains a radiobutton list for my terms and conditions of the site.
e.g.
Yes
#Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.TermsAndConditions, "True")
No
#Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.TermsAndConditions, "False",
new { Checked = "checked" })
</div>
#Html.ValidationStyledMessageFor(model => model.TermsAndConditions)
All is ok if the user completes the form without any errors however if I do serverside validation and the page is refreshed I lose the selection that the user made for the radiobutton and the selected radio goes back to the default false field.
How am I meant to be binding the radiobutton so if a user selects true this value is maintained even after serverside validation?
Any suggestions would be great!
For the short answer, you need to do three things:
Remove the new { Checked = "checked" } from the second radio button. This hard-coded checked value will override all of the magic.
When you return your ViewResult from the controller action, give it an instance of your model class where TermsAndConditions is false. This will provide the default false value you need in order to have the false radio button preselected for you.
Use true and false as the values for your radio buttons instead of "True" and "False". This is because your property is of type bool. Strictly speaking, you coincidentally chose the correct string representations for true and false, but the value parameter for the RadioButtonFor method is of type object. It's best to pass in the actual type you want to compare to rather than converting it to a string yourself. More on this below.
Here's what's going on in depth:
The framework wants to do all of this for you automatically, but you did those first two things incorrectly which makes you have to fight with the framework to get the behavior you want.
The RadioButtonFor method calls .ToString() on the value of the property you specified and compares it to the .ToString() of the value you passed in when creating the radio button. If they are equal, then it internally sets isChecked = true and ends up rendering checked="checked" in the HTML. This is how it decides which radio button to check. It simply compares the value of the radio button to the value of the property and checks the one that matches.
You can render radio buttons for pretty much any property this way and it will magically work. Strings, ints, and even enum types all work! Any object that has a ToString method that returns a string which uniquely represents the object's value will work. You just have to make sure you're settings the radio button's value to a value that your property might actually have. The easiest way to do this is just to pass in the value itself, not the string representation of the value. Let the framework convert it to a string for you.
(Since you happened to pass in the correct string representations of true and false, then those values will work as long as you fix your two actual mistakes, but it's still wise to pass in the actual values and not their strings.)
Your first real mistake was hard-coding Checked = "checked" for the "No" radio button. This will override what the framework is trying to do for you and results in this radio button always being checked.
Obviously you want the "No" radio button to be preselected, but you have to do it in a way that's compatible with everything above. You need to give the view an instance of your model class where TermsAndConditions is set to false, and let it "bind" that to the radio buttons. Normally, a controller action which responds to the initial GET request of a URL doesn't give the View an instance of the model class at all. Typically, you just return View();. However, since you want a default value selected, you must provide the view with a instance of your model that has TermsAndConditions set to false.
Here is some source code illustrating all of this:
Some sort of Account class that you probably already have. (Your View's model):
public class Account
{
public bool TermsAndConditions { get; set; }
//other properties here.
}
Some methods in your controller:
//This handles the initial GET request.
public ActionResult CreateAccount()
{
//this default instance will be used to pre-populate the form, making the "No" radio button checked.
var account = new Account
{
TermsAndConditions = false
};
return View( account );
}
//This handles the POST request.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult CreateAccount( Account account )
{
if ( account.TermsAndConditions )
{
//TODO: Other validation, and create the account.
return RedirectToAction( "Welcome" );
}
else
{
ModelState.AddModelError( "TermsAndConditionsAgreement", "You must agree to the Terms and Conditions." );
return View( account );
}
}
//Something to redirect to.
public ActionResult Welcome()
{
return View();
}
The entire View:
#model Account
#{
ViewBag.Title = "Create Account";
}
#using ( Html.BeginForm() )
{
<div>
<span>Do you agree to the Terms and Conditions?</span>
<br />
#Html.RadioButtonFor( model => model.TermsAndConditions, true, new { id = "TermsAndConditions_true" } )
<label for="TermsAndConditions_true">Yes</label>
<br />
#Html.RadioButtonFor( model => model.TermsAndConditions, false, new { id = "TermsAndConditions_false" } )
<label for="TermsAndConditions_false">No</label>
<br />
#Html.ValidationMessage( "TermsAndConditionsAgreement" )
</div>
<div>
<input id="CreateAccount" type="submit" name="submit" value="Create Account" />
</div>
}
BONUS: You'll notice that I added a little extra feature to the radio buttons. Rather than just use plain text for the radio button labels, I used the HTML label element with the for attribute set to the IDs of the each radio button. This lets users click on the label to select the radio button instead of having to click on the radio button itself. This is standard HTML. For this to work I had to set manual IDs on the radio buttons, otherwise they would both get the same ID of just "TermsAndConditions", which wouldn't work.
There are a few things you need to do here in order to ensure the user's selection is maintained after server side validation.
a) Bind the "checked" property of each radio to your model in the view, for example:
Yes
#Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.TermsAndConditions, "True", model.TermsAndConditions == true ? new { Checked = "checked" } : null)
No
#Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.TermsAndConditions, "False", model.TermsAndConditions == false ? new { Checked = "checked" } : null)
b) To define the initial default value when the view is first displayed, initialise the model returned to the view in the GET request (in the controller action), for example:
public ActionResult SomeForm()
{
return View(new SomeModel { TermsAndConditions = false });
}
b) Ensure in your [HttpPost] controller action that you return the model when the validation fails, for example:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SomeForm(SomeModel model)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
return View(model);
// Do other stuff here
}
This way when the view is rendered in the response after validation fails, it will have the actual model state that was passed in (thus maintaining the user's selection).
I can't really tell since you haven't shown your code, but I suspect that if you're failing on server side validation you're just returning the raw view. When it fails, you need to populate the view with the model that was submitted, same as if you were returning any other validation errors. Otherwise you'll get the default model values (which will always be false for the registration boolean).
Maybe you could post your server side code?
Here I am offering another more complex example.
public enum UserCommunicationOptions
{
IPreferEmailAndSMS = 1,
IPreferEmail = 2,
IPreferSMS = 3
}
Html
#model UserProfileView
// Some other code
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-lg-2 control-label">Communication</label>
<div class="col-lg-10">
<div class=" col-xs-">
#if (Model.UserCommunicationOption.ToString() == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmailAndSMS.ToString())
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmailAndSMS, new { #checked = "checked" })
}
else
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmailAndSMS)
}
<label class=" control-label" for="#Model.UserCommunicationOption">I Prefer Email And SMS</label>
</div>
<div class=" col-xs-">
#if (Model.UserCommunicationOption.ToString() == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmail.ToString())
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmail, new { #checked = "checked" })
}
else
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmail)
}
<label class=" control-label" for="#Model.UserCommunicationOption">I Prefer Email</label>
</div>
<div class=" col-xs-">
#if (Model.UserCommunicationOption.ToString() == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferSMS.ToString())
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferSMS, new { #checked = "checked" })
}
else
{
#Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.UserCommunicationOption, (int)UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferSMS)
}
<label class=" control-label" for="#Model.UserCommunicationOption">#DLMModelEntities.Properties.Resource.IPreferSMS</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Model
[Required(ErrorMessageResourceName = "Communications", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resource))]
[Display(Name = "Communications", ResourceType = typeof(DLMModelEntities.Properties.Resource))]
public UserCommunicationOptions UserCommunicationOption { get; set; }
GET
var client = AppModel.Clients.Single(x => x.Id == clientId);
if (Convert.ToBoolean(client.IsEmailMessage) && Convert.ToBoolean(client.IsSMSMessage))
{
model.UserCommunicationOption = UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmailAndSMS;
}
else if (Convert.ToBoolean(client.IsEmailMessage))
{
model.UserCommunicationOption = UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmail;
}
else if ( Convert.ToBoolean(client.IsSMSMessage))
{
model.UserCommunicationOption = UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferSMS;
}
POST
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult MyProfile(UserProfileView model)
{
// Some code
var client = AppModel.Clients.Single(x => x.Id == clientId);
if (model.UserCommunicationOption == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmail)
{
client.IsSMSMessage = false;
client.IsEmailMessage = true;
}
else if (model.UserCommunicationOption == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferEmailAndSMS)
{
client.IsSMSMessage = true;
client.IsEmailMessage = true;
}
else if (model.UserCommunicationOption == UserCommunicationOptions.IPreferSMS)
{
client.IsSMSMessage = true;
client.IsEmailMessage = false;
}
AppModel.SaveChanges();
//Some code
}
Database
Webpage
I had a similar issue and solved the problem by setting a ViewData value in controller to keep track of what the user had selected.

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