Question

By default, MVC’s input html helpers generate “id” and “name” with the same value. In my case i do not need the id, and when i do, I always enter a custom value. Auto generating unnecessary id’s increases the document size, and makes me nerves, because i might be using the same id in my CSS or JavaScript code.

Can i alter the default behavior of the html helpers, so the id is not generated unless manually defined.

I know that i can tell the helpers not to generate an id by passing new { id = "" }, but this approach is not very convenient for large, data-entry-type applications.

Is there an easy way to alter this behavior, or do i need to write custom html helpers?

Answer 1

use,

Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Text).RemoveNameIdAttribute()

public static MvcHtmlString RemoveNameIdAttribute(this MvcHtmlString helper)
{
            if (helper == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException();
        var element = helper.ToString();
        var regex = new Regex("(id|name)[^'\"]*['\"][^'\"]*['\"]",RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
        return MvcHtmlString.Create(regex.Replace(element, ""));
}