Question

here is my model

namespace chPayroll.Models.CustInformations
{
    public class CustContact
    {
        public int cId { get; set; }
        public int cNoType { get; set; }
        public string cNo1 { get; set; }
        public string cNo2 { get; set; }
        public string cNo3 { get; set; }
        public List<CustContact> contact { get; set; }
    }
}

here is my editorTemplates

@model chPayroll.Models.CustInformations.CustContact         


@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.cNo1)
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.cNo2)
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.cNo3)

I need to show three textbox for taking email,three text box for taking telephone no. in view. how can I add the items to the list contact defined in the model so that it shows like this

email:--textbox1----textbox2----textbox3--
telephone:--textbox1----textbox2----textbox3--

and sends value to the controller

actually I am trying to send my data in list named contact here ie inside list at

index 0-email1-email2-email3
index 1-tel1-tel2-tel3

Answer 1

@Sanjay: you have a strange construct in your view model:

public class CustContact
{
   public List<CustContact> contact;
}

Even if it compiles and machine understands it, I wouldn’t use it as it is – you trying to lift yourself from the ground by pulling your hair up 🙂

It should be defined something along these lines (following your naming conventions & logic):

public class CustContact // single
{
    public int cId { get; set; }
    public int cNoType { get; set; }
    public string cNo1 { get; set; } // those are actual phones, emails etc data
    public string cNo2 { get; set; }
    public string cNo3 { get; set; }
}

public class CustContacts // plural
{
   public List<CustContact> Contacts;
}

View:

@model CustContacts
@EditorFor(m => Model)

Editor template:

@model CustContact
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.cNo1)
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.cNo2)
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.cNo3)

For brevity, we don’t deal here with annotations, decorations, error handling etc.

Hope this helps.