when passing a collection to EditorFor(), it generates invalid names for input elements

Question

I have a BookCreateModel which consists of book\'s plane info such as Title, PublishYear & etc plus a collection of book Authors (complex type) :

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Answer 1

Don't know if it's still relevant, but this blog covers a solution to your problem: http://btburnett.com/2011/03/correcting-mvc-3-editorfor-template-field-names-when-using-collections.html

--> Credits go to itsmatt for finding it :) Jakob