title: Add text in @Html.TextAreaFor MVC 4
body: <p>I need to create the textarea field at my form </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;textarea class="img-shadow" cols="20" id="Message" name="Message" rows="2"&gt;Message&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I write code </p>
  
  <pre><code>  @Html.TextAreaFor(model =&gt; model.Message, new { @class = "img-shadow" })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I get empty textarea without any text</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;textarea class="img-shadow" cols="20" id="Message" name="Message" rows="2"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I add text in?</p>