Html.EditorFor ignoring my specified class

asp.net-mvc, html-helper, razor

Solution

You can't set class for the the EditorFor. You could have many different tags inside this template. So you need to assign the class inside the editor template:

<div>
    @Html.TextBoxForModel(x => x.StartDate, new { @class = "input datepicker" })
</div>

Or you could just use the TextBoxFor:

@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.StartDate, new { @class = "input datepicker" }})

Problem

I have a model like: ``` public class MyModel { public string Name {get; set;} public DateTime StartDate {get; set;} } ``` Then, in my Razor view, I have this: ``` @Html.EditorFor(x => x.StartDate, new { @class = "input datepicker" }) ``` The outputted HTML however, looks like this: ``` <input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-required="The StartDate field is required." id="StartDate" name="StartDate" type="text" value="01/01/0001 00:00:00"> ``` It seems to be completely ignoring my `@class` definition (as well as adding validation stuff of its' own) Is there a way of making it render with my specified class?

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