How to set TextBoxFor to hide by default

Question

I have a view in MVC3 with TextBoxFor tied to my model as follows:

<%=Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SomeProperty, new { @readonly = "readonly" }) %> 

How can I change this as a text box that will have the style = "display: none;" default?

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by default, but you can add the style attribute:

 <%= Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SomeProperty, new { style = "display: none;" }) %> 

or

 <%= Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SomeProperty, new { @class = "hidden" }) %> 

and in your CSS file:

 .hidden { display: none; } 

Answer 2

 <%= Html.HiddenFor(m=> m.SomeProperty, new { @readonly = "readonly" }) %>