Changing the size of Html.TextBox

Question

I\'m developing an ASP.NET MVC3 application using the new Razor view engine but I\'m having some difficulty changing a TextBox so that it is multiline. So far all I\'ve been ab

Answer 1

You could decorate the Body property on your view model with the [DataType] attribute:

[DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
public string Body { get; set; }

and in your view use the EditorFor helper instead of TextBoxFor:

    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Body)

Another possibility is to leave the model as is without adding any attributes to it and in your view use the TextAreaFor helper:

    @Html.TextAreaFor(x => x.Body)

Personally I prefer the first approach.