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

Using @Value is a hack, because it outputs two attributes, e.g.:

You should do this instead:

@Html.TextBox(Html.NameFor(p => p.FirstName).ToString(), "foo")