Removing Required Attribute from Class but MVC3 still won't post the form without a value in the text box

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I have a class. At one point, I had set the properties of the class to [Required] using System.ComponentModel....

Okay, then I realized this was not needed. I have removed the required property but when I try to submit the form to an ActionResult the form does NOT post and still is trying to enforce the TextBoxFor(theModelProperty) to be populated.

I have deleted the "obj" folder, the "bin" folder, and also "Cleaned" the solutions. Still NO resolution.

I don't want to do a stupid workaround, I would like to do things correctly. Any idea why this occurs?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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You have two options:

Set property as nullable,
Turn off required attribute for value types (see this answer)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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answered Jul 25 '11 at 11:49

frennky

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Hey, thanks very much. That worked perfectly. Can you help me out with the following? :-) [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6815653/my-working-application-mvc3-razor-unexplainably-stopped-working-iis-7) – Robert Green MBA Jul 25 '11 at 12:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '11 at 11:15

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If you have value type properties. Client validation will always generate required validations. If you don't want required validation for value types make them nullable.

answered Jul 25 '11 at 11:15

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Removing Required Attribute from Class but MVC3 still won't post the form without a value in the text box

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