Question

I am creating a form in an ASP.NET MVC 3 view, in which one field is to specify a list of ints (corresponding to List<int> in the edited model). How can I generate this editor field in my view? I assume there are MVC 3 helpers I can make use of.

Answer 1

If you want a dropdownlist you can use the HTML.DropDownList helper method. Is this what you want or do you need to display the List as an Ordered/Unordered HTML list?

EDIT

You can create your own HTML Helper function. Assuming you use Razor you can follow the following steps

1.)Create a new .cshtml file inside App_Code directory and name it as you want (for example HTMLHelpers.cshtml)

2.)Write the following in the file

@helper OrderedList(List<int> list) {
    <ul>
        @foreach (var item in list)
        {
            <li>@item</li>
        }
    </ul>
}

3.)Now in your view you can call your new function. For example write

@HTMLHelpers.OrderedList(Model)

2nd EDIT

You can also use Javascript to achieve that functionality. Knockout.js from Steven Sanderson is a great library that helps you to databind values to html elements.

This sample from knockout.js documentation is similar to your needs.

You can also view this blog post from Steven Sanderson that explains how to use Knockout.js with a variable length list and how to submit the list data back to server.