Format a decimal in a view

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If I have a decimal value in a field, and I am trying to display on a page, how do I format it (I would use string.format in web forms):

@Html.DisplayFor(Function(modelItem) String.Format("{0:n0}",currentItem.QualityM1))

That errors in VS2010 with the messae: Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions.

See [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7087495/using-razor-view-engine-how-do-i-format-a-decimal-value-to-have-commas-and-two). — , Mar 15 '12 at 14:23
Hi - please ignore this - just found the answer - for anyone else looking, I simply replaced it with: @String.format("{0:n0}",currentItem.QualityM1) Thanks again, Mark — Mark, Mar 15 '12 at 14:24

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 16 '14 at 19:03

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I wouldn't do this inside the view. It would be better to centralize this and provide this information as metadata as below:

public class Foo { 

    [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:n0}")]
    public decimal Bar { get; set; }
}

Then use this as usual:

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

edited Jul 16 '14 at 19:03

Al Lelopath

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answered Mar 15 '12 at 14:41

tugberk

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score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '12 at 14:26

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Do you need to use Html.DisplayFor?

Otherwise you can just do:

@String.Format("{0:n0}",currentItem.QualityM1)

answered Mar 15 '12 at 14:26

Richard Dalton

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 13 '16 at 20:13

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dont do in DisplayFor... in the class set the atributte like this one.

[DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:N2}")]
    public virtual decimal Valor
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

edited Jun 13 '16 at 20:13

answered Feb 12 '14 at 18:09

user3302942

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Format a decimal in a view

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