Html EditorFor Set Default Value

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Rookie question  I have a parameter being passed to a create view  I need to set a field name with a default value    Html EditorFor model    model Id  I need to set this input field with name Id with a default value that is being passed to the view via an actionlink   So  how can this input field -- Html EditorFor model    model Id  -- get set with a default value   Would the following work   Where the number 5 is a parameter I pass into the text field to set default value    Html EditorFor c    c PropertyName  new   text    5

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I just did this  Shadi s first answer  and it works a treat       public ActionResult Create                 Article article   new Article            article Active   true          article DatePublished   DateTime Now          ViewData Model   article          return View             I could put the default values in my model like a propper MVC addict   I m using Entity Framework       public partial class Article               public Article                         Active   true              DatePublished   Datetime Now                       public ActionResult Create                 Article article   new Article            ViewData Model   article          return View             Can anyone see any downsides to this

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Shouldn t the  Html EditorFor   make use of the Attributes you put in your model    DefaultValue false   public bool TestAccount   get  set

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Its not right to set default value in View  The View should perform display work  not more  This action breaks ideology of MVC pattern  So the right place to set defaults - create method of controller class

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For me I need to set current date and time as default value this solved my issue in View add this code    lt div class  quot form-group quot  gt           Html LabelFor model   gt  model order date  htmlAttributes  new    class    quot control-label col-md-2 quot              lt div class  quot col-md-10 quot  gt               Html EditorFor model   gt  model order date  new   htmlAttributes   new    class    quot form-control quot   Value  DateTime Now                        Html ValidationMessageFor model   gt  model order date   quot  quot   new    class    quot text-danger quot                                   lt  div gt           lt  div gt

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This worked for me   In the controller   ViewBag DefaultValue   Default Value      In the View    Html EditorFor model   gt  model PropertyName  new   htmlAttributes   new    class    form-control    placeholder    Enter a Value    Value   ViewBag DefaultValue

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In the constructor method of your model class set the default value whatever you want  Then in your first action create an instance of the model and pass it to your view       public ActionResult VolunteersAdd                 VolunteerModel model   new VolunteerModel      to set the default values         return View model               HttpPost       ValidateAntiForgeryToken      public ActionResult VolunteersAdd VolunteerModel model                  return View model

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This worked for me  In Controlle   ViewBag AAA   default Value     In View    Html EditorFor model   gt  model AAA  new   htmlAttributes   new    Value   ViewBag AAA

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Better option is to do this in your view model like  public class MyVM      int  propertyValue   5   set Default Value here    public int PropertyName         get                    return  propertyValue                     set                      propertyValue   value                    Then in your view    Html EditorFor c   gt  c PropertyName    will work the way u want it  if no value default value will be there

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The clean way to do so is to pass a new instance of the created entity through the controller     GET public ActionResult CreateNewMyEntity string default value        MyEntity newMyEntity   new MyEntity        newMyEntity  propertyValue   default value       return View newMyEntity       If you want to pass the default value through ActionLink   Html ActionLink  Create New    CreateNewMyEntity   new   default value    5

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Shove it in the ViewBag   Controller   ViewBag ProductId   1    View    Html TextBoxFor c   gt  c Propertyname  new   Value   ViewBag ProductId

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Here s what I ve found    Html TextBoxFor c   gt  c Propertyname  new    Value    5       works with a capital V  not a lower case v  the assumption being value is a keyword used in setters typically  Lower vs upper value   Html EditorFor c   gt  c Propertyname  new    Value    5       does not work   Your code ends up looking like this though   lt input Value  5  id  Propertyname  name  Propertyname  type  text  value      gt    Value vs  value  Not sure I d be too fond of that    Why not just check in the controller action if the proprety has a value or not and if it doesn t just set it there in your view model to your defaulted value and let it bind so as to avoid all this monkey work in the view

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This is my working code    Html EditorFor model   gt  model PropertyName  new   htmlAttributes   new    class    form-control    Value    123         my difference with other answers is using Value inside the htmlAttributes array

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