IHtmlHelper<TModel>.EditorFor<TResult> Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Rendering

Assembly:

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.dll

Package:

Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref v8.0.0

Returns HTML markup for the expression, using an editor template, specified HTML field name, and additional view data. The template is found using the templateName or the expression's ModelMetadata.

public:
generic <typename TResult>
 Microsoft::AspNetCore::Html::IHtmlContent ^ EditorFor(System::Linq::Expressions::Expression<Func<TModel, TResult> ^> ^ expression, System::String ^ templateName, System::String ^ htmlFieldName, System::Object ^ additionalViewData);

public Microsoft.AspNetCore.Html.IHtmlContent EditorFor<TResult> (System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<Func<TModel,TResult>> expression, string templateName, string htmlFieldName, object additionalViewData);

abstract member EditorFor : System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<Func<'Model, 'Result>> * string * string * obj -> Microsoft.AspNetCore.Html.IHtmlContent

Public Function EditorFor(Of TResult) (expression As Expression(Of Func(Of TModel, TResult)), templateName As String, htmlFieldName As String, additionalViewData As Object) As IHtmlContent

Type Parameters

TResult

The type of the expression result.

Parameters

expression

Expression<Func<TModel,TResult>>

An expression to be evaluated against the current model.

templateName

String

The name of the template that is used to create the HTML markup.

htmlFieldName

String

A String used to disambiguate the names of HTML elements that are created for properties that have the same name.

additionalViewData

Object

An anonymous Object or IDictionary<TKey,TValue> that can contain additional view data that will be merged into the ViewDataDictionary<TModel> instance created for the template.

Returns

IHtmlContent

A new IHtmlContent containing the <input> element(s).

Remarks

For example the default Object editor template includes <label> and <input> elements for each property in the expression result.

Custom templates are found under a EditorTemplates folder. The folder name is case-sensitive on case-sensitive file systems.