What is the proper data annotation to format my decimal property?

c# asp.net-mvc data-annotations poco
Bill Greer picture Bill Greer · Dec 30, 2013 · Viewed 42.2k times · Source

I have a POCO with a decimal property called SizeUS. I would like to use data annotations to format the display of the decimal in a view. My SizeUS property is only displaying 2 decimal places in my view and I want it to display 4 decimal places. What is the proper data annotation to accomplish this ?

[DisplayFormat( ? )]
public decimal SizeUS {get; set;}

Answer

Johnbot picture Johnbot · Dec 31, 2013 
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString="{0:#.####}")]

See Custom Format Strings for formats and DisplayFormatAttribute for examples

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