Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

Chapter 10: Creating Custom TagHelpers

In this tenth chapter, we're going to talk about TagHelpers. The built-in TagHelpers are pretty useful and make the Razor code much prettier and more readable. Creating custom TagHelpers will make your life much easier.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

• Introducing TagHelpers
• Creating custom TagHelpers

The topics in this chapter refer to the MVC layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 10.1 – ASP.NET Core architecture

Technical requirements

To follow the descriptions in this chapter, you will need to create an ASP.NET Core MVC application. Open your console, shell, or ...