Question

While rendering the view page, based on some condition in the controller action I want to disable all the controls (textbox, checkbox, button etc) present in the form in a MVC view page. Is there any way to do that? Please help.

Answer 1

you can pass a flag to the view to indcate that it must disable all the controls.

here is an example:

public ActionResult MyAction() {
 ViewData["disablecontrols"] = false;
 if (condition)
 {
    ViewData["disablecontrols"] = true;
 }
 return View();
}

In the view(using jQuery):

   <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var disabled = <%=ViewData["disablecontrols"].ToString()%>;
  if (disabled) {
    $('input,select').attr('disabled',disabled);
  }
})
    </script>