I am having trouble passing data from my view to my controller. I am using checkboxes. For my view, I created a class that takes in all my checkboxes (Mon-Fri) and putting them into a list (so I can use the data someplace else). My problem is that when I debug and click the checkboxes on the website, the code does not change whether I click the checkbox or not, so my code doesn't recognize the checkbox data

I'm not sure if I have implemented the View incorrectly but any help to the right direction would be appreciated !

ViewModel:

public List<cDay> _cDays = new List <cDay>();

public List<cDay> cDays
{
   get {return _cDays;}
   set {_cDays = value;}
}

public class cDay
{
    public bool Monday { get; set; }
    public bool Tuesday { get; set; }
    public bool Wednesday { get; set; }
    public bool Thursday { get; set; }
    public bool Friday { get; set; }
}

CSHtml file:

@Html.Label("M")
@Html.CheckBox("Monday", false, new { @class = "availability" })
// this is basically the same code for Tuesday-Friday as well.

'<label for="M">M</label>  
'<input  id="Monday" name="Monday" type="checkbox" value="true">'  
'input name="Monday" type="hidden" value="false">'
// this is basically the same code for Tuesday-Friday, but the "name" corresponds to each day

Controller:

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Edit(string inputValue, Model viewModel)
{
    if(ModelState.IsValid)
    // 

}

CodePudding user response：

Consider to use the following data model:

public class DaysViewModel  
{
    public List<CDay> Days { get; set; } = new List<CDay>();
}

public class CDay
{
    public CDay()
    {
        Name = string.Empty;
        Selected = false;
    }

    public CDay(string name) 
    {
        Name = name;
        Selected = false; 
    }      

    [Required]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public bool Selected { get; set; }
}

Then you can use the default ASP.NET MVC data binding without a JS support:

@model Models.DaysViewModel

@using (Html.BeginForm("Edit", "Home"))
{   
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken() 
    for(int i=0; i < Model.Days.Count; i  )  
    {
        <div >
        @Html.CheckBox("Days["   i   "].Selected", Model.Days[i].Selected)   
        @Html.Hidden("Days["   i   "].Name", Model.Days[i].Name)
        <span>@Model.Days[i].Name </span>   
        </div>
    }
    <input type="submit" value="Save" />
}

And on the server side:

public ActionResult Edit()
{
    var model = new DaysViewModel();
    model.Days.AddRange( new List<CDay> {
            new CDay("Monday"),
            new CDay("Tuesday"),
            new CDay("Wednesday"),
            new CDay("Thursday"),
            new CDay("Friday")
        });
    return View(model);
}

[HttpPost]        
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Edit(List<CDay> days)
{
    if(ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        // ... you_code here 
    }
    var model = new DaysViewModel() { Days = days };
    return View(model);
}

Test screen shots

The view:

On the controller side:

CodePudding user response：

You can do it using jQuery

Add a button bellow your checkboxes

<input type="button" value="Your_Value" />

When click on a button create a post request and sends checked status via querystring

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("input[type=button]").click(function () {
        var queryString = 'Monday='   $("input[name=Monday]").is(":checked")   '&Tuesday='   $("input[name=Tuesday]").is(":checked")   '&Wednesday='   $("input[name=Wednesday]").is(":checked")   '&Thursday='   $("input[name=Thursday]").is(":checked")   '&Friday='   $("input[name=Friday]").is(":checked");
        $.ajax({
            type: "Post",
            url: "/Home/Edit?"   queryString,
            success: function (data) {
            },
            error: function (data) {
            }
        });
    });
});

And inside controller create Edit Post Method like this

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult checkboxespost(string Monday, string Tuesday, string Wednesday, string Thursday, string Friday)
{
    ...
}