Html.EditorFor additionalViewData

Question

I have a custom editor template where I add values to the ViewData like so:

@Html.EditorFor( model => model.PhoneNumber , new { Title = "SomeValue" } )

How can I access both the value and the property name?

See my example here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9400359/1173800 — jhilden, Feb 22 '12 at 18:04
In case someone else has the same problem as me and appears here from Google - I could not understand why my ViewData["Something"] was null in my custom EditorFor. It turned out that I was loading a different view in my browser from the one where I added the anonymous type to test it out. Silly mistake. — DavGarcia, Nov 15 '12 at 00:20

score 63 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '10 at 13:40

63

ViewData is a dictionary.

You can write ViewData["Title"], or you can loop through ViewData (which is a collection of KeyValuePairs) or ViewData.Keys.

answered Dec 16 '10 at 13:40

SLaks

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '13 at 19:11

You can nest your htmlAttributes object in view data:

<%= Html.EditorFor(model => model.PhoneNumber, new { htmlAttributes = new { Title = "SomeValue" } })

Then in your editor template:

<%= Html.TextBox("", Model.Value, ViewData["htmlAttributes"])%>

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