Question

I have some read-only data I want to display in a View, but it needs to be manipulated by jQuery in the browser.

I could use Html.DisplayTextFor but then I can’t manipulate it (at least, I don’t think I can.) Oh, and I also want to be able to style this.

What’s the best way of doing this?

Answer 1

You could just output it in a div or span, maybe write an extension method on HtmlHelper to do this (untested):

public static string Display(this HtmlHelper html, string value, string cssClass)
{
    TagBuilder span = new TagBuilder("span");
    span.InnerHtml = value;
    span.AddCssClass(cssClass);
    return span.ToString();
}