How to change the display name for LabelFor in razor in mvc3

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In razor engine I have used LabelFor helper method to display the name  But the display name is seems to be not good to display  so i need to change my display name how to do it       Html LabelFor model   gt  model SomekingStatus  new    class    control-label

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Decorate the model property with the DisplayName attribute

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You can change the labels  text by adorning the property with the DisplayName attribute     DisplayName  Someking Status    public string SomekingStatus   get  set      Or  you could write the raw HTML explicitly    lt label for  SomekingStatus  class  control-label  gt Someking Status lt  label gt

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You could decorate your view model property with the  DisplayName  attribute and specify the text to be used    DisplayName  foo bar    public string SomekingStatus   get  set      Or use another overload of the LabelFor helper which allows you to specify the text    Html LabelFor model   gt  model SomekingStatus   foo bar     And  no  you cannot specify a class name in MVC3 as you tried to do  as the LabelFor helper doesn t support that  However  this would work in MVC4 or 5

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Html LabelFor model    model SomekingStatus   foo bar

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This was an old question  but existing answers ignore the serious issue of throwing away any custom attributes when you regenerate the model  I am adding a more detailed answer to cover the current options available   You have 3 options    Add a  DisplayName  Name goes here    attribute to the data model class  The downside is that this is thrown away whenever you regenerate the data models  Add a string parameter to your Html LabelFor  e g   Html LabelFor model   gt  model SomekingStatus   My New Label   new    class    control-label    Reference  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library system web mvc html labelextensions labelfor v vs 118  aspx The downside to this is that you must repeat the label in every view  Third option  Use a meta-data class attached to the data class  details follow     Option 3 - Add a Meta-Data Class   Microsoft allows for decorating properties on an Entity Framework class  without modifying the existing class  This by having meta-data classes that attach to your database classes  effectively a sideways extension of your EF class   This allow attributes to be added to the associated class and not to the class itself so the changes are not lost when you regenerate the data models   For example  if your data class is MyModel with a SomekingStatus property  you could do it like this   First declare a partial class of the same name  and using the same namespace   which allows you to add a class attribute without being overridden    MetadataType typeof MyModelMetaData    public partial class MyModel       All generated data model classes are partial classes  which allow you to add extra properties and methods by simply creating more classes of the same name  this is very handy and I often use it e g  to provide formatted string versions of other field types in the model    Step 2  add a metatadata class referenced by your new partial class   public class MyModelMetaData          Apply DisplayNameAttribute  or any other attributes       DisplayName  My New Label        public string SomekingStatus      Reference  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library system componentmodel dataannotations metadatatypeattribute v vs 110  aspx  Notes    From memory  if you start using a metadata class  it may ignore existing attributes on the actual class   required  etc  so you may need to duplicate those in the Meta-data class  This does not operate by magic and will not just work with any classes  The code that looks for UI decoration attributes is designed to look for a meta-data class first

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