Using angular attributes with TextBoxFor in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I am using ASP.NET MVC with AngularJs. I am new to AngularJs, I am trying to create a form that uses angularjs.

So to start with I have a login form which asks for username and password.

The username using Html.TextBoxFor as shown below

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName, new { ng-model="user.name" })

But the ide shows the ng-model as an error in red. and gives an error when run with this change.

Error message

account/login - c:\SVN HOME\ABC-SelfServe\src\ABC\Web\Views\Account\Login.cshtml(23): error CS0746: Invalid anonymous type member declarator. Anonymous type members must be declared with a member assignment, simple name or member access.

Till now whenever I had to include html attributes I used to do like this and it used to work. What syntax do I used to include ng-.... angular attributes with razor TextBoxFor ?

Anthony Chu · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-15 06:37:44Z

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The - in new { ng-model="user.name" } is not valid C#. Change it to ng_model and MVC will convert the underscore to a dash on output.

answered May 15, 2014 at 6:37

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4 Comments

Ehsan Sajjad Over a year ago

razor converts every _ to - in the html attributes of Helper?

Yasser Shaikh Over a year ago

Yes it worked. Thank you. I realized there no point in using Html.TextboxFor or similar razor helper when using angular. I am now using plain html with angular. Thanks again.

Anthony Chu Over a year ago

Yes. It's a shortcut as underscores are actually not valid in attributes. Can also solve this by using an overload of the helper that takes a Dictionary instead of an object.

AxdorphCoder Over a year ago

"-", "_" and ":" in attributes are all normalized by angular. They are treated as pascal case "markers". my_attr, my-attr and my:attr are all normalized to myAttr. But angular does not change the html of the attribute.

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