MVC 4 Html.Editor ignores EditorTemplate

Question

I'm trying to implement some custom EditorTemplates but they're only being rendered by my Create view, and not the Edit one.

Model

public class Page {
    public int PageID { get; set; }
    [DataType(DataType.Html)]
    [AllowHtml]
    // I tried including [UIHint("Html")] but this made no difference
    public string Content { get; set; }
    ...
}

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Html.cshtml

@model string
@Html.TextArea("", Model, new { @class = "html"})

/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Object.cshtml

@if (ViewData.TemplateInfo.TemplateDepth > 1)
{
    @ViewData.ModelMetadata.SimpleDisplayText

} else {

    @Html.ValidationSummary(false)

    foreach (var prop in ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties.Where(pm => pm.ShowForEdit
                         && !ViewData.TemplateInfo.Visited(pm)))
    {
        if (prop.HideSurroundingHtml) {
            @Html.Editor(prop.PropertyName)
            @prop.DataTypeName
        } else {
            <div class="form-field">
                @if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Html.Label(prop.PropertyName).ToHtmlString())) {
                    @Html.Label(prop.PropertyName)
                }
                @Html.Editor(prop.PropertyName)
            </div>
        }
    }
}

/Views/Page/Create.cshtml ( This correctly renders Html.cshtml )

@model MvcDisplayTemplates.Models.Page

@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
    @Html.EditorForModel(Model)
    <p><input type="submit" value="Create" /></p>
}

/Views/Page/Edit.cshtml ( This simply renders the default single line text editor )

@model MvcDisplayTemplates.Models.Page

@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
    @Html.EditorForModel(Model)
    <p><input type="submit" value="Save" /></p>
}

Interestingly, if I use EditorFor on Edit.cshtml then Html.cshtml is actually rendered. e.g.

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Content)

UPDATE: If I delete object.cshtml then Html.cshtml is also rendered correctly. So this does seem to be an issue in Object.cshtml. It just seems odd that it works on one view but not another

Answer 1

I fixed by explicitly setting the template in Object.cshtml

@Html.Editor(prop.PropertyName, prop.TemplateHint ?? prop.DataTypeName)

Still not clear why it previously worked in one view but not the other though.