What is the reason DisplayFor ignores html attributes?

Question

When trying to use this

@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.someField, new { htmlAttributes = "class = someclass" })

the field, when rendered does not contain class someclass. I supposed its because its just writing out the text and there isn't a span element or anything to set the class on.

I'm really looking to set the id so that I can update it via js later on.

Answer 1

class needs to be @class

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DisplayFor(), does not have any HTML attributes, thus u can't do it. Instead there are other ways of rendering the data inside a DIV/SPAN with ur class.. – Nick Oct 16 at 11:15

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I think it should be @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.someField, new {@class="someClass"}) – Michel Oct 16 at 11:30