Question

I am not able to set default text for @HTML.TextAreaFor

This is all I tried, but didn’t work, it always shows empty text area

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.EmployeeDescription, new {  @Text = ViewBag.Model.EmployeeDescription })

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.EmployeeDescription, new {  @text = ViewBag.Model.EmployeeDescription })

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.EmployeeDescription, new {  @Value = ViewBag.Model.EmployeeDescription })

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.EmployeeDescription, new {  @value = ViewBag.Model.EmployeeDescription })

Exactly same thing is working for @Html.TextBoxFor with @Value but not with TextArea 🙁

Can anybody help…

Answer 1

Found the answer, I was doing a silly mistake

Now I replaced my Index method from this

    public ActionResult Index(Guid empId)
    {
        ViewBag.Model = new EditEmployeePopulator(session, empId).GetModel();
        return View();
    }

To this

    public ActionResult Index(Guid empId)
    {
        return View(new EditEmpoyeePopulator(session, empId).GetModel());
    }

And it worked!

I was doing that in the wrong way earlier. I was assigning my model as a property of ViewBag and was accessing it through ViewBag only in my view and that was my mistake.

When I replaced my code it started working with this only

@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.EmployeeDescription)

🙂 🙂

Thanks for all the replies