How do I create a hidden field in MVC3?

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I'm using MVC3. When I make a field with

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.RowKey)

Then the value gets sent back to the controller which is what I need. However I don't want the field to be visible even though I want its value to be returned to the controller.

Is there a way I can make a field hidden with MVC3?

score 52 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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@Html.HiddenFor(model => model.RowKey)

see What does Html.HiddenFor do? for an example

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Apr 20 '11 at 14:33

moi_meme

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score 44 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '11 at 14:38

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If you want to keep Html.EditorFor(), you could always mark a particular property of your model as hidden:

using System.Web.Mvc.HiddenInput;

public class Model
{
    [HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
    // some property
}

answered Apr 20 '11 at 14:38

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I prefer your solution and updated it to include more details about the attribute. And although I don't use the strategy of just doing `Html.EditorForModel()` and prefer to be specific about what to include per property, I just use `Html.EditorFor`. I think if I started again though, I would use `Html.EditorForModel` and customise everything using the scaffolding and attributes. – jamiebarrow Sep 12 '11 at 12:12
Is there any fundamental difference between using these two approaches? Except the syntactic sugar perhaps? – Marko Jovanov Nov 25 '15 at 10:38

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 27 '16 at 07:28

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This works for me:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.RowKey, new { htmlAttributes = new { @style="display: none" } })

answered May 27 '16 at 07:28

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '11 at 14:34

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Could you use the hiddenfor helper, like so:

@Html.HiddenFor(m => m.RowKey)

answered Apr 20 '11 at 14:34

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How do I create a hidden field in MVC3?

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