How to get materializecss checkbox to work with @H

Question

So I'm having an issue trying to implement materializecss' checkbox with @Html.CheckBoxFor. If I input exactly:

<input type="checkbox" id="test5" />
<label for="test5">Red</label>

it works. But if I try this:

@Html.LabelFor(m => m.RememberMe, new { @class = "login-label" })
@Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.RememberMe, new { @type = "checkbox" })

the checkbox disappears way off the page to the left (the style of the checkbox gets its left set to -99999).

Is there any other way I can implement CheckBoxFor that would make materialize cooperate?

Answer 1

Case 1:

@Html.LableFor(x=>x.IsVpn)
@Html.CheckBoxFor(x=>x.IsVpn) (Suppose)

render like that
<lable for="IsVpn">
<input type="checkbox" name="IsVpn" value="true"/>
<input type="hidden" name="IsVpn" value="false"/>


But We Need like that For materialize css


<input type="checkbox" name="IsVpn" value="true"/>
<lable for="IsVpn">
<input type="hidden" name="IsVpn" value="false"/>

Case 2:

@Html.CheckBoxFor(x=>x.IsVpn) (Suppose)
@Html.LableFor(x=>x.IsVpn)

Now What happen:

<input type="checkbox" name="IsVpn" value="true"/>
<input type="hidden" name="IsVpn" value="false"/>
<lable name="IsVpn">

But our requirement is for materilize css :

<input type="checkbox" name="IsVpn" value="true"/>
<lable name="IsVpn">
<input type="hidden" name="IsVpn" value="false"/>

So we can't use @Html.CheckBoxFor materializ css directly

but it we can use output:

<input type="checkbox" name="IsVpn" value="true"/>
<lable name="IsVpn">
<input type="hidden" name="IsVpn" value="false"/>

it will work exactly same as checkboxfor.

But If we want razor syntax then we need to customize checkboxfor and need to make a extension..

Answer 2

I Was having same problem and the order of ChecBoxFor and LabelFor were like peter.edwards suggest. For me the problem was caused by a hidden element generated by @Html.CheckBoxFor:

<input checked="checked" class="check-box" data-val="true" id="IsActive" name="IsActive" type="checkbox" value="true">
<input name="IsActive" type="hidden" value="false">
<label for="IsActive">IsActive</label>

What I did to solve the problem was, move the hidden element to the bottom of the parent element:

 $("input[type='hidden']").each(function (index, element) { 
        $(this).appendTo($(element).parent());
    });

Answer 3

Try reversing your checkbox and label render order...

@Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.RememberMe, new { @type = "checkbox" })
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.RememberMe, new { @class = "login-label" })