How to add custom data attributes and classes to `@Html.EditorFor`?

Question

I want to add some custom attributes to the input generated by @Html.EditorFor, I tried the following:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Percent, new { @class = "percent" })

But it just ignores my class, from what I can tell from searching around is that the template doesn't support adding custom attributes.

But how does one create a custom template adding support for the custom attributes, while keeping all the functionality of the old template?

Answer 1

Using jQuery this could be done easily

$("input").addClass("class-name")

Input tag

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

For DropDownlist u can use following code

$("select").addClass("class-name")

for Dropdownlist

@Html.DropDownlistFor(model=>model.Name)

Answer 2

Please see the following posts, this question has been asked before on Stackoverflow.

• Add css class to Html.EditorFor in MVC 2
• Set the class attribute to Html.EditorFor in ASP.NET MVC Razor View
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor - Adding class to EditorFor

There are many more examples, just Google it.

I hope this helps.