html.hiddenfor

Although I have read the documentation on Html.HiddenFor, I've not grasped what is it used for... Could somebody explain its uses and give a short example? Where should those helpers go in the code? Justin Niessner It creates a hidden input on the form for the field (from your model) that you pass it. It is useful for fields in your Model/ViewModel that you need to persist on the page and have passed back when another call is made but shouldn't be seen by the user. Consider the following ViewModel class: public class ViewModel { public string Value { get; set; } public int Id { get; set; } }

I'm using MVC 3 in my project, and I'm seeing a very strange behavior. I'm trying to create a hidden field for a particular value on my Model, the problem is that for some reason the value set on the field does not correspond to the value in the Model. e.g. I have this code, just as a test: <%:Html.Hidden("Step2", Model.Step) %> <%:Html.HiddenFor(m => m.Step) %> I would think that both hidden fields would have the same value. What I do is, set the value to 1 the first time I display the View, and then after the submission I increase the value of the Model field by 1. So, the first time I