TextBoxFor not respecting linefeed, carriage return in the text

Question

I am dispalying some long text in the @Html.TextBoxFor. The text contains linefeed, carriage returns etc but @Html.TextBoxFor does not seem to respect those. Any ideas what i may be missing?

Answer 1

A Textbox is single line per definition.

You have to use a TextArea:

@Html.TextAreaFor( ...