Will Razor's EditorFor() syntactic sugar create a checkbox list in the View?

Question

I've been jumping through hoops to add an array of checkboxes to a View in an asp.net MVC project (using a custom jQuery plugin), but just realized it might be possible using the "in-the-box" functionality of the MVC / Razor extravaganza.

Theoretically, the following should work:

If a model has an array of bool, such as:

public bool[] chicagoBoolsFools { get; set; }

...calling this in the View:

@Html.EditorFor( model => model.chicagoBoolsFools)

...should create an array of checkboxes bound to the Model member.

Is this the case only in theory, or also in actuality?

Neither. How could EditorFor figure out how many checkboxes you want? — Pluc, Aug 07 '13 at 16:56
Good point; is there a way to specify how many, thus allowing EditorFor to work as desired in this instance? — B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven, Aug 07 '13 at 17:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

Unfortunately @Html.EditorFor doesn't even create checkboxes... Maybe I am misunderstanding you but I would try something more along the lines of this post.

Try stuffing a model with either a list of Checkboxes (represented by a string and a boolean value) or just a basic string property for each checkbox, which can then be rendered in the view using several @Html.CheckBoxFor calls.

@Html.CheckBox or @Html.CheckBoxFor are key here.

Will Razor's EditorFor() syntactic sugar create a checkbox list in the View?

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