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Asked: 2026-06-06T18:40:04+00:00

I’m using MVC3’s Razor engine to generate views and have the following line of

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I’m using MVC3’s Razor engine to generate views and have the following line of code generating a textbox

 @Html.EditorFor(model => model.AddressLine1)

In the relevant model I’m using a data annotation attribute to limit the number of acceptable characters to 55:

[StringLength(55)]
public string  AddressLine1 { get; set; }

However this allows the user to type in a longer address only to be then told via a validation message when they try and submit the form. How can I limit the textbox to 55 characters so that the user is unable to type any more than that in?

If I was generating the text box myself I would use the maxlength attribute for an input type but I’m not sure how to achieve the same results using the Html.EditFor method.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use maxlength and a TextBoxFor instead of EditorFor

    EditorFor has no overload that permit to do that.

    This could be even more interesting for you :
    maxlength attribute of a text box from the DataAnnotations StringLength in Asp.Net MVC

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