Question

I have this line of code within my .aspx file

<label title="<%= Model.ProductName %>"></label>

why is it when I run it, the label is not showing at all.

yet if I do something like this it would work:

<%: Html.LabelFor(model => model.ProductName) %>

I would really like for the first method to work, is there a way?

thank you

Answer 1

It’s because you need to provide contents for this label:

<label title="some title" for="ProductName">
    <%: Model.ProductName %>
</label>

The way you wrote your markup the <label> tag is empty. Also make sure you properly HTML encode the contents. Notice in my example the usage of <%: (available only in ASP.NET 4) instead of <%=. If you are running on previous versions you could use the the following:

<label title="some title" for="ProductName">
    <%= Html.DisplayFor(x => x.ProductName) %>
</label>