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
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
When using TextBoxFor
or TextAreaFor
rather than EditorFor
, use only the inner key-value pair from @Medo's answer, since the method directly expects an htmlAttributes object:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.variable, new { placeholder = "Your Placeholder Text" })
(I realize this is tangential to the original question, but having this here would have helped me when I landed on this page earlier, looking for an answer to how to add placeholder text to an Html.TextAreaFor
!)
Use some jquery, eg: $("#FirstName").attr("placeholder", "Do not type name - use Search button");
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.members_ssn, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", placeholder = "Your Example Here" } })
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) } })