How can I use placeholder attribute with Html.EditorFor?

Question

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 i

Answer 1

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