DisplayFormat not getting applied on decimal value

Question

I have a model property I'm trying to render using an EditorFor template, and I'm trying to apply formatting using the DisplayFormat attribute. However, it's not working at all -- it's totally being ignored.

Here is my template:

@model System.Decimal?
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m)

Here is my model:

[DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:0.00}")]
public decimal? Retail { get; set; }

Here is my view:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.Retail)

But it's rendering a textbox with the following value:

189.9900

It seems pretty straight forward, but it's not working, and I have no idea why.

UPDATE: Just for kicks, I tried it with a DisplayFor template, and it worked:

@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.Retail)

So why would the DisplayFor template work, but not the EditorFor template, when I've set ApplyFormatInEditMode to true?

UPDATE 2: Never mind, the reason that worked is because my Decimal display template was hard-coded to format that way. So my display template also does not work.

Did you try `@Html.EditorForModel()` in your template? – Jon Oct 20 '11 at 22:44 — Jon, Oct 20 '11 at 22:44
Yeah, that only removed the textbox altogether. – Jerad Rose Oct 20 '11 at 22:53 — Jerad Rose, Oct 20 '11 at 22:53

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '11 at 22:54

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Try with this format, it outputs 18.999,00

[DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:N}")]

answered Oct 20 '11 at 22:54

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No, that still doesn't work for me. It still renders `1899.9900`. – Jerad Rose Oct 20 '11 at 22:59
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You must be using the default EditorFor template, whereas I'm using a custom template. Default templates work fine for me, it's the custom templates that don't work, as they have to ultimately use TextBoxFor. So my answer above, and the question I linked to. – Jerad Rose Oct 21 '11 at 13:40
as @jer says it works in EditorFor but not TextBoxFor – politus Apr 30 '15 at 10:57

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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Darin Dimitrov posted this answer, and I was able to get it working using his solution:

@Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue)

A bit crude, IMO, that this doesn't work w/ TextBoxFor, but at least it works.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Oct 20 '11 at 23:25

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 20 '11 at 22:41

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DisplayFormat won't work like that; if you manually create a text box for the property it doesn't come into play. It would only work if you did

@model System.Decimal?
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m)

answered Oct 20 '11 at 22:41

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So does it not work with EditorFor? I thought that was the point of `ApplyFormatInEditMode`? – Jerad Rose Oct 20 '11 at 22:44

DisplayFormat not getting applied on decimal value

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