ASP.NET MVC: Html.EditorFor and multi-line text boxes

Question

This is my code:

    <div class="editor-label">         @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment)     </div>     <div class="editor-field">         @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment)         @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment)     </div> 

This is what it generates:

    <div class="editor-label">         <label for="Comments_0__Comment">Comment</label>     </div>     <div class="editor-field">         <input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-required="The Comment field is required." id="Comments_0__Comment" name="Comments[0].Comment" type="text" value="" />         <span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Comments[0].Comment" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>     </div> 

How do I tell it that the field should be a text box with five lines instead of just a single-line text box?

Answer 1

Use data type 'MultilineText':

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

See ASP.NET MVC3 - textarea with @Html.EditorFor

Answer 2

in your view, instead of:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment) 

just use:

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Comments[0].Comment, 5, 1, null)