Question

I have this field that for some reason when I click on submit, gets a validation message that the field is required.

[DisplayName("Total Budget:")]
public double Budget { get; set; }

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.account.Budget)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.account.Budget)

public class Account
{
    [DisplayName("Total Budget:")]
    public double Budget { get; set; } //dropdown
}

Answer 1

The built-in DefaultModelBinder in MVC will perform required and data type validation on value types like int, DateTime, decimal, etc. This will happen even if you don’t explicitly specify validation using someting like [Required].

In order to make this optional, you will have to define it as nullable:

public double? Budget { get; set; }