asp.net-mvc How to change width Html.TextBox

Question

how do you change the width of a textbox in an asp.net-mvc View

i want to have these fields side by side and the state textbox much shorter width

Answer 1

If using the default MVC template that ships with VS. Explictly specifying a class in the html attributes of the textbox doesn't seem to override Site.css, however, an inline style does work. So:

{@style= "width: 400px;"} 

will work, whereas this wont:

{@class="myclass"}