Question

How do I set the default text (in a create view) for a TextBoxFor element:

 @Html.TextBoxFor(Function(model) model.QualityM1s, New With {Key .text="0"})

Answer 1

Not exactly sure what you mean by default text. If you want to preinitialize the textbox with some value you could use a normal textbox:

@Html.TextBoxFor(Function(model) model.QualityM1s)

and then you could set the corresponding view model property to the default value inside your controller action just before passing the model to the view:

model.QualityM1s = "some default text"
return View(model)

The TextBoxFor helper will then use the value of your model property to fill the corresponding textbox.

If you want to apply a watermark effect you have 2 possibilities:

• Use the new HTML 5 placeholder attribute (this obviously assumes that the client browser supports it):

  @Html.TextBoxFor(Function(model) model.QualityM1s, New With { Key .placeholder = "some default text"})
  

• Use javascript. For example there are many jQuery watermark plugins.