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POPossible to have empty values with Html For Helpers such as Html.TextBoxFor()?
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    copied!<p>Is it possible to have to make a html for helper in asp.net mvc 2.0 have a default value of "empty string"</p> <p>Like if I do this </p> <pre><code>Html.TextBoxFor( u =&gt; u.ProductName) </code></pre> <p>would render to</p> <pre><code>&lt;input id ="ProductName" name="ProdcutName" type="text" value="Jim" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now I don't want the textbox to display jim. I want it to display nothing.</p> <pre><code>&lt;input id ="ProductName" name="ProdcutName" type="text" value="" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>I tried to do this</p> <pre><code> Html.TextBoxFor( u =&gt; u.ProductName, new { @value = " "}) </code></pre> <p>but that seems to do nothing. So how can I do this. I hope you can do something like this otherwise I think these new helpers have a great flaw since now I need to use like javascript to remove them since I hardly ever want a default value in the textbox especially when I have a label right beside the textbox saying what it is.</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong></p> <p>I found that if I want to set it to a null string I have to do that in the viewmodel. What is fine but still one problem is left. In my example ProductName is a string type. But if it was say a int then it would show a default value to 0 which is something I don't want.</p> <p>So you can of course set a int to a empty string. So to get it to a empty string you need to change that type to a string what kinda sucks.</p> <p>Any one know away around this?</p> <p><strong>Edit 2</strong></p> <p>Also the radio button for helper does not seem to generate a "id". How do you set one?</p>
 

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