Tag helpers are a new feature that has been introduced in ASP.NET Core MVC and are C# classes that transform HTML elements in a view. Common uses for tag helpers include generating URLs for forms using the application’s routing configuration, ensuring that elements of a specific type are styled consistently, and replacing custom shorthand elements with commonly used fragments of content. In this chapter, I describe how tag helpers work and how custom tag helpers are created and applied. In Chapter 24, I describe the built-in tag helpers that support HTML forms, and in Chapter 25 I describe ...
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ADAM FREEMAN, Pro ASP.NET Core MVC , 10.1007/978-1-4842-0397-2_23
23. Understanding Tag Helpers
Adam Freeman1
(1)Milton Keynes MK6 3PA, UK
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