Question

I’ve got an editor template location in:

Areas/Posts/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Question.cshtml

I also have one in:

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Question.cshtml

For both, the model is the same.

What i’m trying to do is within a View in the Posts area, call my editor template in the area, set some HTML and then bubble back up to the main shared editor template.

Here’s the Posts EditorTemplate:

@model xxx.ViewModels.QuestionViewModel
@Html.Hidden("Id", (byte)Model.QuestionType)
@Html.EditorForModel()

But all it does it render out the hidden field, not the contents of the shared editor template.

If i get rid of the Posts editor template, the shared one is rendered properly.

I’m guessing MVC/Razor thinks this is recursive or something? Like im calling the same template?

Is there any way i can tell it to go to the shared one?

Essentially, i’m trying to re-use the HTML in the shared template, but inject some sneaky HTML of my own.

Answer 1

As the HTML markup for the shared editor template was very simple (just rendered a checkbox and a label), i abstracted the markup into a custom HTML helper, then called this from both the shared template and my areas template.

~/Areas/Posts/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Question.cshtml:

@model xxx.ViewModels.QuestionViewModel
@Html.Hidden("Id", (byte)Model.QuestionType)
@Html.QuestionCheckBoxForModel()
@Html.QuestionLabelForModel()

~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Question.cshtml:

@model xxx.ViewModels.QuestionViewModel
@Html.QuestionCheckBoxForModel()
@Html.QuestionLabelForModel()