To recreate the issue I'm having I've set up two simple controller actions, two views and a view model:
MultiForms Action (in the form controller class)
public class FormController : Controller
{
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult MultiForms()
{
return View("MultiForms");
}
// ...
MultiForms.cshtml - Razor View
@Html.Action("MyFormGet", "Form")
Notice in the action method I call the controller method that returns the form partial view.
MyFormGet Action
[HttpGet]
public PartialViewResult MyFormGet()
{
var viewModel = new MyFormViewModel();
ViewData.TemplateInfo.HtmlFieldPrefix = Guid.NewGuid().ToString().Replace("-", "_");
return PartialView("MyForm", viewModel);
}
View Model
public class MyFormViewModel
{
public string TextInput1 { get; set; }
}
MyForm.cshtml - Razor View
@model Mvc5App.Controllers.MyFormViewModel
@using (Html.BeginForm("MyFormPost", "Form", FormMethod.Post))
{
<br />
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.TextInput1)
}
When I point my browser at /Form/MultiForms
I get the output I expect:
<input type="text" value="" name="e166fa0d_46fe_40d4_a970_73c52a35f224.TextInput1" id="e166fa0d_46fe_40d4_a970_73c52a35f224_TextInput1">
Then I refresh the page and the output becomes this:
<input type="text" value="" name="48edc339_69ad_4b9b_9583_198038beab45.TextInput1">
Where did the id attribute go? Is this a bug in ASPNET MVC5 or have I done something wrong with this setup?