How can I use placeholder attribute with Html.EditorFor?

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caj picture caj · May 4, 2014 · Viewed 54.7k times · Source

I want to use the placeholder attribute in the Html.EditorFor so I did just like in the first answer: Html5 Placeholders with .NET MVC 3 Razor EditorFor extension?

But in the final part, I don't have the EditorTemplates folder so I created it and when I tried to create the string.cshtml view I couldn't because the name "string" is reserved so I chose stringg.cshtml instead and it didn't work! Do I have to change the name elsewhere in my program? I did exactly like the answer...

Thank you!

Answer

Medo picture Medo · May 5, 2014

Upgrade to MVC 5.1 and you can use HTML attributes in EditorFor:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.variable, new { htmlAttributes = new { placeholder = "Your Placeholder Text" } })

http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/releases/mvc51-release-notes

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