ASP.NET MVC can generate HTML elements using HTML Helpers, for example @Html.ActionLink(), @Html.BeginForm() and so on. I know I can specify form attributes by creating an anonymous object and pass that object for the (fourth in this case) htmlAttributes parameter where specifying an id for the element: Html.BeginForm(“Foo”, “Bar”, FormMethod.Post, new { id = “MyForm”}) … Read more
I’m trying to add a class to an input. This is not working: @Html.EditorFor(x => x.Created, new { @class = “date” }) 16 Answers 16
I have just created an ASP.NET MVC 4 project and used Visual Studio 2012 RC to create a Controller and Razor Views for Index and Create Actions. When I came to run the application, and browsed to the Create view, the following error was shown: Compiler Error Message: CS0103: The name ‘Scripts’ does not exist … Read more
Here’s the About.cshtml from the default MVC 3 template: @{ ViewBag.Title = “About Us”; } <h2>About</h2> <p> Put content here. </p> I would expect that a reference to the _ViewStart file would be found in the About.cshtml, but clearly it’s not. I’ve looked in global.asax and web.config, but I can’t find out how the About.cshtml … Read more
I know how to set .css files on the _Layout.cshtml file, but what about applying a stylesheet on a per-view basis? My thinking here is that, in _Layout.cshtml, you have <head> tags to work with, but not so in one of your non-layout views. Where do the <link> tags go? 6 Answers 6
After significant refactoring in my MVC 4 application, and Razor shows this error while debugging Views: The name ‘model’ does not exist in the current context. This is the offending line of code: @model ICollection<DataSourceByActive> I know that the usage of @model is correct. Why is this happening? How can I fix it? 25 Answers … Read more
I need to create a function that is only necessary inside one cshtml file. You can think of my situation as ASP.NET page methods, which are min web services implemented in a page, because they’re scoped to one page. I know about HTML helpers (extension methods), but my function is just needed in one cshtml … Read more
I’m trying to figure out the proper Razor syntax to get a JavaScript file for a particular *.cshtml to be in the head tag along with all the other include files that are defined in _Layout.cshtml. 2 Answers 2
I’ve got a large site that runs in ASP.NET MVC using the Razor view engine. I have a base stylesheet which contains all of the generic styling for the whole site. On occasion, however, I have page specific styles which in the <head> of the page – usually this is one or 2 lines. I … Read more
I understand that in Razor, @Html does a bunch of neat things, like generate HTML for links, inputs, etc. But I don’t get the DisplayFor function… Why would I write: @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Title) when I could just write: @Model.Title 4 Answers 4
