Question

I want to disable a textbox in the view. So I use following code:

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { readonly="true" })%>

or

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { enable="false" })%>

Both of them don’t work. what’s the solution?

Answer 1

Try

<%= Html.TextBox("ID", Model.ID, new { @readonly="readonly" })%>

I’m not sure you have to use the overload with 4 parameters. You should be able to use the one with 3, but you need to append @ to the readonly since readonly is a keyword in C#. And setting @readonly to readonly is XHTML compliant.