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

<%= Html.TextBox("state", null, new { @style = "width: 300px;" })%>

Answer 2

You can use the TextBox helper to add any arbitrary attibutes to your textbox. For instance:

<%= Html.TextBox( "state", null, new { size = "10" } ) %>

Will render something like:

<input type="text" name="state" size="10" />

Answer 3

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"}

Answer 4

css

.yourcssclassname{width:50px;}

html

<%= Html.TextBox("city", null, new{@class="yourcssclassname"})%>

that should do it... you could also obviously send along a style attribute, but css classes are a better path to choose.

string.Empty represents the default value.

Edit: see tvanfosson's post

fixed answer so it solves the problems mentioned in the comments.

Answer 5

I would use the helper signature that takes HTML attributes and assign it a CSS class. You would then use CSS to achieve the desired look and feel.

 <%= Html.TextBox( "state", null, new { @class = "small-input" } ) %>