Use @Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified), because otherwise the DisplayFormat attribute will have no effect.
To add further attributes like a CSS class, you have to create an editor template for the DateTime.
Create a file EditorTemplates/DateTime.cshtml with the following content:
@Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, new
{
@class="date"
})
Please note that the value of the TextBox is not set with the Model directly, but rather with the TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, because that value will be formatted according to the DisplayFormat attribute while the Model not. (This took me quite some time to realize. :))
In simple cases this might be enough, e.g. if the CSS class can be the same for all date editors.
If you want to parametrize the attribute, you can do that as well, passing the attribute value parameter to the EditorFor.
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.DateModified, new { @class = "someClass" })
However, this parameter will be not automagically delegated to the HTML control as attribute, but you have to "handle it" in the template explicitly. According to my experiences you can access this parameter value in the ViewData in the template, so the parametrized template looks like this:
@Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue, new
{
@class=ViewData["class"]
})