ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor - Adding class to EditorFor

Question

I\'m trying to add a class to an input.

This is not working:

@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Created, new { @class = \"date\" })

Answer 1

It is possible to provide a class or other information through AdditionalViewData - I use this where I'm allowing a user to create a form based on database fields (propertyName, editorType, and editorClass).

Based on your initial example:

@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Created, new { cssClass = "date" })

and in the custom template:

    @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Created, new { @class = ViewData["cssClass"] })