Question

I do some webpage under MVC3 and I got some stuck about the best way to generate HTML controls for the questionnaire.

I guess there are 2 ways:

1. by code to generate raw html with controls and etc. (I mean like sb.Append("<input id='bla' class='bla' />") and etc.. Sample is here )
2. by sending the complete model and then put some foreach inside of HTML code

Could u suggest please which way is better and how do I have to get the answers then (by model or FormCollection)?

Here is my draft for the loop (no other things yet…)

var qs = db.SN_Questionnaires.Where(q => q.Code == 1).FirstOrDefault();    
foreach (var questionGroup in qs.SN_QuestionGroups)
    {
        foreach (var question in questionGroup.SN_Questions)
        {
            var questionType = db.SN_QuestionTypes.Where(qt => qt.ID == question.SN_QuestionTypeID).FirstOrDefault(); // Get type of the control here (TextBox, Radio, and etc)

            foreach (var answer in question.SN_Answers)
            {

            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

Have you thought about using partial views? Your model could contain the name of the partial view (your template), and be rendered like this:

@Html.Partial(Model.Template)