Question

I am outputting a textbox to the page using the Html helpers. I want to add the disabled attribute dynamically based on whether or not a boolean value in my model is true or false.

My model has a method that returns a boolean value:

<% =Model.IsMyTextboxEnabled() %>

I currently render the textbox like follows, but I want to now enabled or disable it:

<% =Html.TextBox("MyTextbox", Model.MyValuenew { id = "MyTextbox", @class = "MyClass" })%>

If the return value of Model.IsMyTextboxEnabled() == true I want the following to be output:

<input class="MyClass" id="MyTextbox" name="MyTextbox" type="text" value="" />

If it == false, I want it to output as:

<input class="MyClass" id="MyTextbox" name="MyTextbox" type="text" value="" disabled />

What is the cleanest way to do this?

Answer 1

This here should do the trick:

<%= Html.TextBox("MyTextbox", Model.MyValuenew,           
      (Model.IsMyTextboxEnabled() ? (object) new {id = "MyTextbox", @class = "MyClass"}
                                  : (object) new {id = "MyTextbox", @class = "MyClass", disabled="true" })) %>