Razor view- C# - Disable read only textbox's

Question

I tried several answers posted on stackoverflow. However, the following doesn't seem to work:

@Html.TextArea("Comments", Model.Comments, Model.ReadOnly ? new { @disabled = "disabled"} : null)

I also tried:

@Html.TextArea("Comments", Model.Comments, Model.ReadOnly ? new { disabled = "disabled"} : null)

Any idea what am I doing wrong?

You did not specify what answers you already looked at, there's no way I could know whether you saw that before or not. — Cᴏʀʏ, Feb 24 '16 at 21:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:20

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I don't think that MVC likes a null here. What you need as a third parameter (which expects object) is a default empty anonymous instance instead of null:

Model.ReadOnly ? (object)new { disabled = "disabled" } : (object)new { }

answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:20

Cᴏʀʏ

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:27

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I would use a custom variable to set it. I don't think the conditional is acceptable in the arguments of the HtmlHelper.

@{
    var htmlAttributes = Model.ReadOnly ? new { disabled = "disabled" } : null;
}

@Html.TextArea("Comments", Model.Comments, htmlAttributes)

answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:27

Joel Etherton

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I am going to try that! Any idea if I can add similar parameters to BOTH the true and false conditions? Without mentioning that in both – user5975648 Feb 24 '16 at 21:37
As long as the result is a valid collection of attributes you should be able to construct it that way. – Joel Etherton Feb 24 '16 at 21:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:37

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Try wrapping your ternary operation in parentheses

@Html.TextArea("Comments", Model.Comments, (Model.ReadOnly ? new { @disabled = "disabled"} : null) )

answered Feb 24 '16 at 21:37

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Razor view- C# - Disable read only textbox's

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