In ASP.NET MVC I could define a textBox editor like this and give it a style.
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Notes[i].Notes, new { style = "width: 500px;" });
How can I move the style to the Site.css file and just refer to it from the code above?
.myStyle {
width: 500px;
}
I tried this which compiles but doesn't seem to work:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Notes[i].Notes, "myStyle");
You want to give it a class attribute for your CSS rule to match:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Notes[i].Notes, new { @class = "myStyle" });
Note that the @ in @class has no special meaning in ASP.NET MVC. It's simply there to turn class, a keyword in C#, into an identifier, so you can pass it in as a property and it'll compile.
One word of explanation. Normally if you want to add attributes, e.g. readonly, you would type:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Notes[i].Notes, new { readonly = "readonly" });
Notice there is no @ in front of readonly. You have to put @ in front of the class attribute, because it's a keyword in C#. If you do it in VB.NET you do not have to escape, because you define properties with a leading .:
@Html.TextBoxFor(Function(m) m.Notes[i].Notes, New With { .class = "myStyle" });
New With... another cool VB.NET language feature I learned today.