ASP.Net MVC Postback a label value to your controller

Question

When using an EditorTemplate, if I want a value on the model to be displayed on the screen, but also to be posted back to the controller, what helper should I use?

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Answer 1

@Html.DisplayTextFor(model => model.RoomTypeName)
@Html.HiddenFor(model => model.RoomTypeName)

This is very clean and standard way of doing what you want to achieve.

If you would make your own HTML helper that does exactly the same thing it by saving one line would just confuse other people who might read your code in the future, or even yourself.