How can I use placeholder attribute with Html.EditorFor?

asp.net html razor asp.net-mvc-5 placeholder

Upgrade to MVC 5.1 and you can use HTML attributes in EditorFor:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.variable, new { htmlAttributes = new { placeholder = "Your Placeholder Text" } })

asp.net html razor asp.net-mvc-5 placeholder

 @Html.EditorFor(model => model.members_ssn, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", placeholder = "Your Example Here" } })

asp.net html razor asp.net-mvc-5 placeholder

This works for MVC 5.

In my case i was looking to set the placeholder from the model metadata, like this:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.name, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", placeholder = Html.DisplayNameFor(x => x.name) } })

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