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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:31:48+00:00

I am loading a Razor View via AJAX and putting the content into a

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I am loading a Razor View via AJAX and putting the content into a div on a page.

If I want to send some arbitrary data from the view to our AJAX framework, is there a recommended HTML tag to do this with? A hidden field sounds like the wrong this to use for this. I could use an empty div with custom data- attributes, but again, a div sounds wrong.

My data isn’t relevant to any element within this view, more related to the view itself.

Yes – this is simply a question of systematics and aesthetics.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I use data-* attributes, and try to find and attach them to already existing related elements. This convention is also used by asp.net mvc framework itself – when link target needs to be loaded, data-ajax-* is attached to anchors. When you need to set update target of form submit, you attach data-ajax-* to form, so in most cases it is possible to find good candidate for it. If it is not possible in any particular case, I do not see problems using body instead.

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