Razor variable in string not rendering properly

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@using (Html.BeginForm()) { int controlWidth=250; @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.studentFirstName, new { style = "width:@(controlWidth)px;" })

this code renders as

 <input data-val="true" data-val-required="The Student First Name field is required." id="studentFirstName" name="studentFirstName" style="width:@(controlWidth)px;" type="text" value="" />

understandably, I want it to render as

 <input data-val="true" data-val-required="The Student First Name field is required." id="studentFirstName" name="studentFirstName" style="width:250px;" type="text" value="" />

I've seen posts like ASP.NET MVC Razor Concatenation that suggest this approach is right. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Zeeshan Ali · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-30 18:38:29Z

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I don't think you can do that. Inline templates can only be used inside HTML like <li style="@(controlWidth)"> or if your method supports inline template. See http://vibrantcode.com/blog/2010/8/2/inside-razor-part-3-templates.html/ on how to write a method that supports inline template.

answered Aug 30, 2012 at 18:38

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Dave Alperovich Over a year ago

I'm beginning to see. Are you saying razor variables work in some areas but not in style parameters?

Zeeshan Ali Over a year ago

Yes it can work with methods that support inline template i.e. a method takes Func<int, object> template as argument & calls it just like what the author is doing in above post. But I don't see this is possible with C# properties and ofcourse style is property here. It is commonly used as html encoded expression like <span>@model.Message</span>.

Dave Alperovich Over a year ago

zeeshan, what about this post stackoverflow.com/questions/4702957/… ? I can't believe all the posters are lying that <li id="item_@(item.TheItemId)"> worked for them. The answer has a +42

Zeeshan Ali Over a year ago

Here id is not .NET property but attribute of <li> tag

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