Question

I need this displayfor to update its value from using jquery.

I tried .val() and .text() but neither worked, is there a special way to do this for Displays, I need it to be and stay as a Display.

Also can the style not be set for Displays? I never could get that to work, it works for TextboxFor.

Thanks for any tips.

Estimated Time: @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.EstimatedTime, new { @class = "TitleEstTimeClass", @style = "color: green" })

$(".TitleEstTimeClass").val(result[1]);

Answer 1

DisplayFor generates a label HTML tag <label id="myId" class="myClass">Some Text</label>. (INCORRECT)

EDIT

I was wrong and thought you were using the LabelFor helper. The DisplayFor helper outputs no HTML markup (like a label or span tag). If you want this to work with the DisplayFor helper, you will need to wrap the DisplayFor tag with a <span> or something similar like below:

<span class="TitleEstTimeClass" style="color: green">
   @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.EstimatedTime)
</span>

Given this, try using the .html() JQuery property like below – it really is no different than updating the text in div or span:

$(".TitleEstTimeClass").html(result[1]);

Also, be sure that your JQuery call is in the appropriate <script></script> tags and that the function that you are calling is actually being fired. I am not sure if the above code is straight from your project or just snippets, but as written above, nothing will happen.