In ASP.NET MVC 2, how do I get Html.TextBoxFor to render a textarea instead of an input tag?

Question

This code:

<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.DonationMessage) %>

Renders an input type=text tag, but I want a textarea. I tried this in my entity but it didn't make a difference:

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

Any idea?

Answer 1

<%: Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.DonationMessage) %>

Answer 2

if u want your DataType attribute to be at work you can use EdiotrFor method instead

<%: Html.EditorFor(model => model.DonationMessage) %>

this will take into account your DataType attribute plus there are dozen other things that you can do with Editor Templates