Here is my code in MVC 5:
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.myfloatvalue, new { @type = "number", @min = "0", @step = "0.01", @value = "0" })
And here is the html code:
<input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-number="The field Fix Amount must be a number." data-val-required="The Fix Amount field is required." id="myfloatvalue" name="myfloatvalue" type="text" value="">
Not to
<input class="text-box single-line" data-val="true" data-val-number="The field Fix Amount must be a number." data-val-required="The Fix Amount field is required." id="myfloatvalue" name="myfloatvalue" type="number" min="0" step="0.01" value="0">
What should I do?
Thanks for response!
Have you tried wrapping your anonymous object in the htmlAttributes
of another anonymous object? When using EditorFor
/TextBoxFor
, I believe in MVC 5 that's the only way of affecting the HTML attributes output by the editor.
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.myfloatvalue, new { htmlAttributes = new { @type = "number", @min = "0", @step = "0.01", @value = "0" }})
If you not using MVC-5.1 or higher, then you will need to use TextBoxFor()
.
Note no htmlAttributes
used here:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.myfloatvalue, new { type = "number", min = "0", step = "0.01" }) // don't set the value attribute
You can actually change the default behaviour for the EditorFor for a float
so that it produces type="number"
instead of type="text"
.
To do that you need to add a custom EditorTemplate
for the Single
(not float
) type to /Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Single.cshtml
as follows:
@model Single?
@{
var attributes = HtmlHelper.AnonymousObjectToHtmlAttributes(ViewData["htmlAttributes"]);
if (!attributes.ContainsKey("type")) { attributes.Add("type", "number"); }
}
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m, attributes)
The reason this works is that float
is a C# alias for System.Single
(see the Microsoft c# Language Reference for more details on that). Adding an EditorTemplate
called Float.cshtml will not work (I tried...).
I got the idea for this from @Stephen Muecke's excellent answer to my question here. He also mentions the idea of creating your own HtmlHelper
extension so you could then write @Html.FloatFor(...)
.
This same approach can also be applied to Decimal
and Double
, both of which also render type="text"
by default.
<input type="text" name="search" id="txtSearch" class=" search-query form-control" placeholder="Search by Id" onkeypress="return event.charCode >= 48 && event.charCode <= 57" onpast="return false" />