Question

Typically I’m ok with the auto-generated form element names when using the HTML helper like this:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Property)

Unfortunately, I have a requirement to create an input with a specific name attribute.

I realize I can just build the input using normal HTML and use a model binder or a BindAttribute to retrieve its submitted value. However, I wanted to see if there was a way for me to attribute a property instead to specify both the generated input name and enable the binding.

Is this possible? If so, how can it be done?

Answer 1

Description

One way to set the name of the input element is to use a overload of TextBoxFor.
But this would result in problems with the default model binder. You can create your own ModelBinder to solve this issue.

Sample

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Property, new { @name = "YourName" })