What does Html.HiddenFor do?

Although I have read the documentation on Html.HiddenFor, I've not grasped what is it used for...

Could somebody explain its uses and give a short example?

Where should those helpers go in the code?

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It creates a hidden input on the form for the field (from your model) that you pass it.

It is useful for fields in your Model/ViewModel that you need to persist on the page and have passed back when another call is made but shouldn't be seen by the user.

Consider the following ViewModel class:

public class ViewModel
{
    public string Value { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

Now you want the edit page to store the ID but have it not be seen:

<% using(Html.BeginForm() { %>
    <%= Html.HiddenFor(model.Id) %><br />
    <%= Html.TextBoxFor(model.Value) %>
<% } %>

This results in the equivalent of the following HTML:

<form name="form1">
    <input type="hidden" name="Id">2</input>
    <input type="text" name="Value" value="Some Text" />
</form>

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并且在您的编辑操作方法中使用隐藏的ID输入：

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(FormCollection collection)
{
    ViewModel.ID = Convert.ToInt32(collection["ID"]);
}

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Like a lot of functions, this one can be used in many different ways to solve many different problems, I think of it as yet another tool in our toolbelts.

So far, the discussion has focused heavily on simply hiding an ID, but that is only one value, why not use it for lots of values! That is what I am doing, I use it to load up the values in a class only one view at a time, because html.beginform creates a new object and if your model object for that view already had some values passed to it, those values will be lost unless you provide a reference to those values in the beginform.

To see a great motivation for the html.hiddenfor, I recommend you see Passing data from a View to a Controller in .NET MVC - "@model" not highlighting

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