October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 22m
English
book
Professional ASP.NET MVC 4
by Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, Scott Hanselman
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Chapter 5
Forms and HTML Helpers
What's In This Chapter?
- Understanding forms
- Making HTML helpers work for you
- Editing and inputting helpers
- Displaying and rendering helpers
HTML helpers, as their name implies, help you work with HTML. Because it seems like a simple task to type HTML elements into a text editor, you might wonder why you need any help with your HTML. Tag names are the easy part, however. The hard part of working with HTML is making sure the URLs inside of links point to the correct locations, form elements have the proper names and values for model binding, and other elements display the appropriate errors when model binding fails.
Tying all these pieces together requires more than just HTML markup. It also requires some coordination between a view and the runtime. In this chapter, you see how easy it is to establish the coordination. Before you begin working with helpers, however, you first learn about forms. Forms are where most of the hard work happens inside an application, and forms are where you need to use HTML helpers the most.
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