How to set a default value with Html.TextBoxFor?

Question

Simple question, if you use the Html Helper from ASP.NET MVC Framework 1 it is easy to set a default value on a textbox because there is an overload Html.TextBox(strin

Answer 1

The default value will be the value of your Model.Age property. That's kind of the whole point.

Answer 2

Try this also, that is remove new { } and replace it with string.

<%: Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Age,"0") %>

Answer 3

value="0" will set defualt value for @Html.TextBoxfor

its case sensitive "v" should be capital

Below is working example:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Nights, 
    new { @min = "1", @max = "10", @type = "number", @id = "Nights", @name = "Nights", Value = "1" })

Answer 4

this worked for me , in this way we setting the default value to empty string

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Id, new { @Value = "" })

Answer 5

It turns out that if you don't specify the Model to the View method within your controller, it doesn't create a object for you with the default values.

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public ViewResult Create()
{
  // Loads default values
  Instructor i = new Instructor();
  return View("Create", i);
}

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
public ViewResult Create()
{
  // Does not load default values from instructor
  return View("Create");
}

Answer 6

This should work for MVC3 & MVC4

 @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Age, new { @Value = "12" }) 

If you want it to be a hidden field

 @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Age, new { @Value = "12",@type="hidden" })