How do you change a string's edit box to textarea?

[Vince]

The default Kendo Grid's behavior is to display a text box for string editing. How do you change this to a textarea?

I am trying to use a EditorTemplate but cannot retrieve or pass the model's string values if I use Html.TextArea

[Tsvetina]

Hi Vince,

Indeed, using a custom editor is the way to go in this scenario. You can use the Html.TextAreaFor helper to be able to bind the textarea to the edited field:

[UIHint("TextArea")]
public string ContactName
{
    get;
    set;
}

Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/TextArea.cshtml

@model string

@Html.TextAreaFor(m=>m, new { rows = 3})

Regards,
Tsvetina
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