MVC3 Decimal truncated to 2 decimal places on edit

Question

I\'m running MVC3 with Razor and noticed that decimal values are truncated to 2 decimal places when in edit mode. I\'ve managed to get round it by annotating my property wit

Answer 1

That's how the default Decimal editor template is defined:

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %>

<%= Html.TextBox("", ModelValue, new { @class = "text-box single-line" }) %>

Notice the {0:0.00} format.

So you have two possibilities:

1. Use double instead of decimal as type in your model

2. Modify the default editor template by creating a custom ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Decimal.cshtml which might simply look like this:

   @Html.TextBox(
       "", 
       ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, 
       new { @class = "text-box single-line" }
   )
   

You probably might want to modify the display template as well.