Html(5) attributes for EditorFor

Question

I know this has been discussed a lot of times.

I'd like to use

@Html.EditorFor(u => u.Password, new { required = "required" })

Unfortunatley this isn't possible by default as the EditorFor overwrites the Html attributes.

I don't want to use TextBoxFor because I'd like the value to be formatted according to the DisplayFormat attribute.

Is there any solution for this?

Answer 1

You could write a custom editor template for the string type (~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/string.cshtml):

@Html.TextBox(
    "", 
    ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue,
    ViewData
)

and then:

@Html.EditorFor(u => u.Password, new { required = "required" })

will work as expected.