Set required attribute on Html.Textbox

Question

I'm looking to create a Bootstrap styled textbox, specifically, based on the exact example below:

<input class="span3" type="email" required> 

Here's what I have so far:

@Html.TextBox("CustomerEmail", null, new { @class = "input-xlarge", type = "email", required = "required" }) 

However, required = "required" clearly doesn't return just required.

So, my question is, is there any way I can force it to return required like in the first example above when using Html.Textbox?

Answer 1

i think you should use like this

 @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { @class = "text", type = "email", required = "required" }) 

i think this will help you.

Answer 2

Try

new { required = string.Empty} 

As an aside, according to the W3C docs, required is a Boolean attribute, and I quote:

The presence of a boolean attribute on an element represents the true value, and the absence of the attribute represents the false value. If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the attribute's canonical name, with no leading or trailing whitespace.

Therefore

required required="required" required="" 

all mean the same thing.