Passing model from view is empty

Question

I'm obviously doing something daft here....

I have a view which displays some information (purely for display there's no data collection going on) with a continue button which when clicked should post the model being displayed back to the controller but the model is virtually always empty. An example being:

<p>Analysis Code: @Html.DisplayTextFor(m=> m.SFCode)</p> 

Which passes a null value back to the controller (although it does display correctly on screen) but if I use:

<p>Analysis Code: @Html.TextBoxFor(m=> m.SFCode)</p> 

Then the value is passed back to my controller but it displays in a textbox on the view which I don't want.

So basically I just want to display some 'stuff' and pass this 'stuff' back to the controller but I can't find a helper method that displays as I want and pass it in.

Could someone show my the light please?

Thanks, C

Answer 1

@using(Html.BeginForm()) // Creates <form>
{
    <p>Analysis Code: @Html.DisplayTextFor(m=> m.SFCode)</p> 
    @Html.HiddenFor(m=>m.SFCode)
}

Add this into your form, it should work.

In order to POST your data back to the Controller , you need it to be inside an input field right? In this case a hidden input field fits your need.