How can I set a css class in Html.TextBox helper?

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Is it possible to set a css class in a TextBox html helper? This doesn't compile, obviously:

<%=Html.TextBox("Region",Model.Region,new {class="Autocomplete"}) %>

Thanks.

Seb Nilsson · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-21 13:24:31Z

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Class is a reserved keyword, so you need to write it like this:

<%=Html.TextBox("Region", Model.Region, new { @class="Autocomplete" }) %>

edited Feb 21, 2013 at 13:24

answered Jun 15, 2009 at 10:07

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Ogre Psalm33 Over a year ago

This is great! I love the fact that google is indexing these pretty well now. I found this solution within 60 seconds of asking myself "how do I set the class attribute?"

shubniggurath Over a year ago

How do you add multiple classes? e.g., <p class="someclass someotherclass">paragraph</p>. That's html valid but when I try to add it using the new { @class="xyz abc" } neither class shows up.

Seb Nilsson Over a year ago

@shubniggurath There must be something wrong on your side. That's the proper way to have multiple CSS-classes.

shubniggurath Over a year ago

@SebNilsson - great! Thanks. I did two or three web searches on "multiple css classes in html.dropdownlist" etc and couldn't find a good answer. If that's right then I'll figure out what's wrong with my code. Thanks, thanks, thanks.

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