Create RadioButton using HtmlHelper:

Learn how to generate radio button control using HtmlHelper in razor view in this section.

HtmlHelper class include two extension methods to generate a <input type="radio"> element in a razor view: RadioButton() and RadioButtonFor().

We will use the following Student model with the RadioButton() and RadioButtonFor() method.

Example: Student Model 

public class Student
{
    public int StudentId { get; set; }
    [Display(Name="Name")]
    public string StudentName { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string Gender { get; set; }
}

 

RadioButton():

The Html.RadioButton() method creates an radio button element with a specified name, isChecked boolean and html attributes.

RadioButton() method Signature:

MvcHtmlString RadioButton(string name, object value, bool isChecked, object htmlAttributes)

Please visit MSDN to know all the overloads of RadioButton() method.

Example: Html.RadioButton() in Razor View

Male:   @Html.RadioButton("Gender","Male")  
Female: @Html.RadioButton("Gender","Female")

Html Result:


Male: <input checked="checked" 
        id="Gender" 
        name="Gender" 
        type="radio" 
        value="Male" />

Female: <input id="Gender" 
        name="Gender" 
        type="radio" 
        value="Female" />

In the above example, we have created two radio button for the "Gender" property. The second parameter is a value which will be sent to the server, if respective radio button is checked. If the Male radio button is selected, then the string value "Male" will be assigned to a model property Gender and submitted to the server. The above example creates two radio buttons as shown below.

Output in the browser — Output of RadioButton() method

RadioButtonFor:

RadioButtonFor helper method is a strongly typed extension method. It generates <input type="radio"> element for the property specified using a lambda expression. RadioButtonFor method binds a specified model object property to RadioButton control. So it automatically checked or unchecked a RadioButton based on the property value.

RadioButtonFor() method Signature:

MvcHtmlString RadioButtonFor(<Expression<Func<TModel,TValue>> expression, object value, object htmlAttributes)

Visit MSDN to know all the overloads of RadioButtonFor().

Example: Html.RadioButtonFor() in Razor View

@model Student

@Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender,"Male")
@Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender,"Female")

Html Result:


<input checked="checked" 
        id="Gender" 
        name="Gender" 
        type="radio" 
        value="Male" />

<input id="Gender" 
        name="Gender" 
        type="radio" 
        value="Female" />

In the above example, the first parameter in RadioButtonFor() method is a lambda expression that specifies the model property to be bind with the RadioButton element. We have created two radio button for the Gender property in the above example. So, it generates two <input type="RadioButton"> element with id & name set to property name - Gender. The second parameter is a value which will be sent to the server when form will be submitted.