ASP.NET MVC3 - textarea with @Html.EditorFor

Question

I have ASP.NET MVC3 app and I have also form for add news. When VS2010 created default view I have only text inputs for string data, but I want to have textarea for news tex

Answer 1

You could use the [DataType] attribute on your view model like this:

public class MyViewModel
{
    [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
    public string Text { get; set; }
}

and then you could have a controller:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View(new MyViewModel());
    }
}

and a view which does what you want:

@model AppName.Models.MyViewModel
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.EditorFor(x => x.Text)
    <input type="submit" value="OK" />
}

Answer 2

Someone asked about adding attributes (specifically, 'rows' and 'cols'). If you're using Razor, you could just do this:

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Text, new { cols = 35, @rows = 3 })

That works for me. The '@' is used to escape keywords so they are treated as variables/properties.

Answer 3

Declare in your Model with

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

Then in .cshtml can make use of editor as below. you can make use of @cols and @rows for TextArea size

     @Html.EditorFor(model => model.urString, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "",@cols = 35, @rows = 3 } })

Thanks !

Answer 4

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Text)