Question

I am attempting to make an HTML Table with data I pull out of DB…

Here is my Model…

public class PopulationModels
{
    public List<PopulationModel> Populations { set; get; }
}

Which is simply a list of…

public class PopulationModel
{
    public string populationID { set; get; }

    public string PopName { set; get; }

    public string Description { set; get; }

    public string PopulationType { set; get; }

    public Boolean isActive { set; get; }

    //public List<XSLTACOData> patients { set; get; }
}

I pass this model to my view like so…

IEnumerable<PopulationModels> PopModel = DataRepo.Get(userName);
return View(PopModel);

I attempt to show a list in the following way…

@foreach (var item in Model) {
<tr>
    <td class="rowControl hidden">
        @*<a href="#makeRowEditable" class="makeRowEditable">Edit</a>*@ |
        @*<a href="#deleteRow" class="deleteRow">Delete</a>*@
        @Html.DispalyFor(modelItem => item.Populations)
    </td>
</tr>
}

But I am having a hard time figuring out how to access the individual elements of my model…

For instance

@Html.DispalyFor(modelItem => item.Populations)

The above line of code, I want to take each individual populationModel and map a column for each of the fields… But I can’t seem to access the individual populations… Am I missing a logical step here (I obviously am, but which step?)

UPDATE: ADDING SOME MORE OF THE VIEW: I am making now getting a table, but the way I am doing it seems counter intuitive…

Here is my model…

 @model IEnumerable<FocusedReadMissionsRedux.Models.PopulationModels>

Here is how I am creating my table (I am planning on using jqGrid’s tableToGrid functionality as soon as I can get a solid way to access my data…

<table border="2">
<thead>
  <tr>
  <th>
    Population Name
  </th>
   <th>
    Population Description
  </th>
  </tr>
</thead>
@foreach(var item in Model){
foreach (var pop in item.Populations)
{
<tr>
    <td class="rowControl hidden">
        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => pop.PopName)
        @Html.ActionLink(pop.PopName,"","")
    </td>
    <td>
        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => pop.Description)
        @Html.Display(pop.Description)
    </td>
</tr>
}

}

Answer 1

Since you didn’t post the complete code for your view: you should define what kind of object you are binding to in your view like this:

@model IEnumerable<PopulationModels>

Then you can just loop through it with a foreach and bind to the current item using:

@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.Popname)