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

This works for MVC 5.

In my case i was looking to set the placeholder from the model metadata, like this:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.name, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", placeholder = Html.DisplayNameFor(x => x.name) } })