Question

Is there a way to build the custom Html Helpers and put them into sub-sections? I.e:

@Html.Buttons.Gray
@Html.Buttons.Blue
@Html.Tables.2Columns
@Html.Tables.3Columns

Thanks.

Answer 1

Helpers are simply extension methods. So you could create helpers that return object that allow you to chain method calls, e.g. @Html.Button("Text").Grey().

public ButtonHelper
{
   public string Text {get; set;}
   public MvcHtmlString Grey()
   {
      return MvcHtmlString.Create("<button class='grey'>"+ Text +"</button>");
   }
}

public static class Buttons
{
   public static ButtonHelper Button(this HtmlHelper, string text)
   {
      return new ButtonHelper{Text = text};
   }
}