MVC Razor CheckBoxFor() not displaying property contents / value

Question

Pretty simple..or so I thought. This is a plugin page in NopCommerce but I don't think that is at play here.

My Models:

public class CheckBoxModel
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public bool Checked { get; set; }
}


public partial class ContactUsModel : BaseNopModel
{
   [AllowHtml]
   [DisplayName("Case Type")]
   public List<CheckBoxModel> CaseType { get; set; }
}

My Controller for a quick check to see if form is displaying correctly:

var model = new ContactUsModel
{
   CaseType = new List<CheckBoxModel>()
   {
      new CheckBoxModel() { Name="Civil Tax", Checked=false },
      new CheckBoxModel() { Name="Criminal Tax", Checked=false },
      new CheckBoxModel() { Name="Other Tax", Checked=false }
   }
}

My razor:

<div class="inputs">
   @Html.LabelFor(model => model.CaseType)
   @for(int i = 0; i < Model.CaseType.Count; i++)
   {
      @Html.LabelFor(lbl => lbl.CaseType[i].Name)
      @Html.CheckBoxFor(chk => chk.CaseType[i].Checked)
   }
</div>

HTML:

Case Type:    Name []      Name[]     Name[]

What am I missing to get the actual name assigned in the controller to show??

DavidS · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-12 16:21:04Z

1

Try this:

<div class="inputs">
   @Html.LabelFor(model => model.CaseType)
   @for(int i = 0; i < Model.CaseType.Count; i++)
   {
      @Html.DisplayFor(lbl => lbl.CaseType[i].Name)
      @Html.CheckBoxFor(chk => chk.CaseType[i].Checked)
   }
</div>

LabelFor will print the name of the property, which is not what you're looking for. DisplayFor will print the value.

answered May 12, 2016 at 16:21

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user3559349 Over a year ago

What you really want is @Html.LabelFor(m => m.CaseType[i].Checked, Model[i].Name) so that you create a label associated with the checkbox (and displays the value of the associated Name property). And you should replace @Html.LabelFor(m => m.CaseType) with @Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.CaseType) since you do not have a control named CaseType so a <label> makes no sense.

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