Add css class to Html.EditorFor in MVC 2

Question

I\'m trying to add a css class to a textbox. This is what I have in my view:

<%: Html.EditorFor(m => m.StartDate) %>

I tried follo

Answer 1

With MVC3, I kept banging my head because I couldn't get this to work. I didn't want to create a whole EditorTemplate for just adding one class.

Well, instead of using EditorFor, use TextBoxFor, with of course the equals sign like so:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m=> m.ZipCode, new { @class = "zip" })

Answer 2

Here's a very simple solution: Remove the double quotes from "datepicker" and retype them back into Visual Studio and it should work.

I had the same problem. I copied/pasted sample code from the web and the code had a special type of quote which caused the "," syntax problem. I know it's really not obvious.