maxlength attribute of a text box from the DataAnnotations StringLength in Asp.Net MVC

Question

I am working on an MVC2 application and want to set the maxlength attributes of the text inputs.

I have already defined the stringlength attribute on the Model objec

Answer 1

While I'm personally loving jrummel's jquery fix, here's another approach to keeping a single-source-of-truth up in your model...

Not pretty, but.. has worked o.k. for me...

Instead of using property decorations, I just define some well-named public constants up in my model library/dll, and then reference them in my view via the HtmlAttributes, e.g.

Public Class MyModel

    Public Const MAX_ZIPCODE_LENGTH As Integer = 5

    Public Property Address1 As String

    Public Property Address2 As String

    
    Public Property ZipCode As String

    Public Property FavoriteColor As System.Drawing.Color

End Class

Then, in the razor view file, in the EditorFor... use an HtmlAttirubte object in the overload, supply the desired max-length property and referenece the constant.. you'll have to supply the constant via a fully qualied namespace path... MyCompany.MyModel.MAX_ZIPCODE_LENGTH.. as it won't be hanging right off the model, but, it works.