unable to apply Bootstrap classes to my EditorFor

Question

I am working on an asp.net mvc-5 web application , and i wrote the following :-

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class =         


        

Answer 1

Yes, to pass html attributes to a standard EditorFor() you need MVC-5.1+. If you want to replicate this with MVC-5, you can create a custom editor template and pass the attributes using the overload that accepts additionViewData. For example, create a new EditorTemplate named "String.cshtml" to apply the template for all properties that are typeof string

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/String.cshtml

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m, ViewData["attributes"])

and in the view

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.Name, new { attributes = new { @class = "form-control" } })

or create a specificEditorTemplate

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/MyCustomTemplate.cshtml

@Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, ViewData["htmlAttributes"])

and in the view

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.Name, "MyCustomTemplate", new { attributes = new { @class = "form-control" } })

The second example shows how to respect the DisplayFormat attribute as mentioned in your comments above, for example

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString="{0:C}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public decimal Amount { get; set; }

will format the value as a currency string.

This answer also gives some other options including creating a custom html helper for rendering bootstrap controls