Question

I have the following in my view:

@Html.LabelFor(Function(model) model.StationName)

But would like to include an asterisk for each required field. If I change the display name in my model definition it then adds an asterisk to the index view too. How would I do this?

Answer 1

Here’s a heuristic (I can’t give you exact code because I don’t have it here):

1. Create a css class that includes appending an asterisk to the content of the tag to which the class is applied. I believe this is the content-after keyword; not sure though.
2. Write a javascript or (my recommendation) jQuery script to run when the page reaches the ready state, to go through all your label tags.
3. If the label tag refers to an input tag that has the required field validation attribute on it (again, don’t have the name in front of me), apply the css class created in step 1 to the label.