I am using Knockout-JS to bind properties in my view to my view model. Knockout-JS uses a custom attribute called 'data-bind' that you have to append to controls in which you want to be bound to view model objects.
Example:
<input type='text' name='first-name' data-bind='value: firstName'/>
Notice the 'data-bind' attribute.
In my view rendering, I am having trouble rendering a textbox that has this attribute. I am aware the Html.EditorFor, Html.TextBoxFor, and Html.TextBox helpers all take an anonymous object that you can use to specify custom attributes. The only problem with this implementation is C# doesn't allow dashes as variable names, so this won't compile: @Html.EditorFor(m => m.FirstName, new { data-bind = "value: firstName" });
The only thing I can think of is this (in view-model):
public class DataBindingInput
{
public string Value { get; set; }
public string DataBindingAttributes { get; set }
}
public class MyViewModel
{
...
public DataBindingValue firstName { get; set; }
....
}
And a view template called "DataBindingInput.cshtml":
@model DataBindingInput
<input type='text' data-binding='@Model.DataBindingAttributes' value='@Model.Value'>
The only trouble with this is I lose the automatic generation of the input name so it won't work on a post-back because the model binder has no idea how to bind it.
How can I make this work?
