Unobtrusive validation not working after adding checkboxes to the form in mvc 4

Question

I want to make checkboxes optional, whether to be checked or not. But when I add a checkbox on my view it will make unobtrusive validation to be stopped. But when I remove the c

Answer 1

I had exactly this problem & posted a question here. Currently I don't have a solution to the problem, but I did find a workaround. Instead of using Html.CheckBoxFor I used Html.CheckBox like so:

@Html.CheckBox("Employee.Active")

I gave it the same name as the CheckBoxFor that was created by the razor view. This is now working as I expected but I consider it a workaround rather that a solution, and I have no idea what's actually causing the problem!