asp.net mvc html.editorfor textarea Edit

how to display HTML Textarea instead of input in an asp .mvc view. I have a Country object and Country Controller in my asp .net MVC application. When I scaffold to create a create view I see an input text box. I would like to display a textarea for the description property in my class.

public partial class Country
 {
     public int Id { get; set; }
     public String Name { get; set; }
     public String Description { get; set; }
 }

The auto generated html & the ouput is displayed below.

<div class="form-group">
    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Description, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
    <div class="col-md-10">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Description, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control" } })
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Description, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })
    </div>
</div>

Solution

solution is to decorate Description property with a DataType attribute.

public partial class Country
 {
     public int Id { get; set; }
     public String Name { get; set; }

     [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
     public String Description { get; set; }
 }