Question

I’ve been working a lot with asp.net web forms and one think that I like about the is the consistency with the generated markup e.g. if you create a composite control for a TextField you can control the generated markup in a single class like and don’t break the SRP:

<form:textfield id="firstName" runat="server" required="true" label="First Name" />

I you’re your going to generate the markup by hand it might look like this:

<label for="firstName" id="lbl_firstName">Name <span class="required">*</span></label>
<input id="firstName" name="firstName" type="text" value="" />

The problem is when would like to change something for example add a wrapping div or move the span. In worst case you have to edit thousands of views.

That’s why I really like the MVC Contrib FluentHtml.

<%= this.TextBox(x => x.Message.PostedBy).Class("required").Label("Name") %>

My question is what do you think is the best way to add a wrapping div for the code line above? I think hand writing is not an option because of the arguments above? Perhaps extending the TextBox : MvcContrib.FluentHtml.Elements.TextInput?

Answer 1

have you checked InputBuilder in MvcContrib project? it is used in Codecampserver as well. have a look and i think u will like it.