Question

I have a partial view that I use for editing and creating my models. When a user is editing the model, I would like a particular drop-down to be rendered as text as I don’t want them to change it. A read-only drop-down would suffice, but I’d prefer text.

I’m thinking I can accomplish this via an extension method, but I’m not quite sure how to get started.

Answer 1

Here’s what I tried (and it works) – though I’m not a fan of if/else’s in my views 🙂

<% if (ViewContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue("action").RawValue.Equals("Edit"))
       { %>
    <span><%= Event.Retailer.Name%></span>
    <%= Html.Hidden("Retailer", Event.Retailer.Id) %>
    <%}
       else
       { %>
    <%=Html.DropDownList("Retailer", Model.Retailers, "Select", new { @class = "field select large required" })%>
    <%= Html.ValidationMessage("Retailer", "*")%>
    <%} %>