String.Format for currency on a TextBoxFor

Question

I am trying to get @String.Format("{0:0.00}",Model.CurrentBalance) into this @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CurrentBalance, new { @class = "required numeric", id = "CurrentBalance" })

I just want the currency to show up as .00 inside of my textbox but am having no luck. Any ideas on how I do this?

Reeve

Answer 1

string.format("{0:c}", Model.CurrentBalance) should give you currency formatting.

OR

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CurrentBalance, new { @class = "required numeric", id = "CurrentBalance", Value=String.Format("{0:C}",Model.CurrentBalance) })

Polybasite

@Html.TextBoxFor(String.Format("{0:C}",model => model.CurrentBalance), new { @class = "required numeric", id = "CurrentBalance" })....Is this the style I am looking for? – Reeve

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CurrentBalance, new { @class = "required numeric", id = "CurrentBalance", Value=String.Format("{0:C}",Model.CurrentBalance) })...This is what I was looking for. Thank you for the help:) – Reeve

It is worthwhile to note the currency notation is dependent on your region settings. In parts of Europe you will get $1.000.000,00 for one million dollars, and depending on the settings you could get ($20.00) or -$20.00 for negatives. – Tanka

Why the heck the 'v' in Value has to be capital? – Lemniscate

This is a hack. It works only because "Value" takes precedence over "value". This shouldn't be the accepted answer. – Ungrateful

Please use Gail Foad's answer instead. There is a parameter overload for TextBoxFor that accepts a string formatter, that is much better than calculating the format when setting it from the model. – Theorem

Answer 2

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.CurrentBalance, "{0:c}", new { @class = "required numeric", id = "CurrentBalance" })

This lets you set the format and add any extra HTML attributes.

Vegetate

Consider adding an explanation to your answer. – Autohypnosis

This is the correct answer. The currently accepted answer is a hack. It results in the 2 value attributes, "Value" and "value". – Ungrateful

format specification - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/… – Turkic

Answer 3

While Dan-o's solution worked, I found an issue with it regarding the use of form-based TempData (see ImportModelStateFromTempData and ExportModelStateToTempData). The solution that worked for me was David Spence's on a related thread.

Specifically:

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:C0}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public decimal? Price { get; set; }

Now if you use EditorFor in your view the format specified in the annotation should be applied and your value should be comma separated:

<%= Html.EditorFor(model => model.Price) %>

Practitioner