Question

I have a model that looks like this:

public class Book
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public IEnumerable<Author> Authors { get; set; }
}

public class Author
{
    public string FullName { get; set; }
    public DateTime BirthDate { get; set; }
}

I have a form in a view for editing a book. The section for editing the Authors collection is in a partial view. The form fields are generated with the Html.EditorFor() method.

It works well for editing existing data. What I would like to do is to put in the Authors editing partial view multiple blank entries that if the user fills them they will be added as new items to the Authors collection.

The final view should look something like this:
http://s1.postimage.org/6g9rqfp20/image.jpg

What is the correct way to achieve this behavior?

Answer 1

If you are using MVC2 this is your best bet

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/10/23/model-binding-to-a-list.aspx#related-results