Question

I have a Html button as follows:

<%=Html.Button("javascript:onSave();", CommonResource.Save, "SaveButton")%>  

Where:

parameter1 - action  
parameter2 - name   
parameter3 - id

How can I add parameter for CSS class? I tried doing this:

<%=Html.Button("javascript:onSave();", CommonResource.Save, "SaveButton",new { @class="save" })%> 

but that does not work. I only get the looks but no action is performed.

Answer 1

You need to look at your implementation of Html.Button as it isn’t a standard HtmlHelper.

It probably doesn’t have a parameter for htmlAttributes, in which case you could use this implementation, which does!

public static class HtmlButtonExtension 
{
  public static MvcHtmlString Button(this HtmlHelper helper, string text,
                                 IDictionary<string, object> htmlAttributes)
  {
      var builder = new TagBuilder("button");
      builder.InnerHtml = text;
      builder.MergeAttributes(htmlAttributes);
      return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString());
  }
}