Render span tag with title attribute with ASP.NET MVC 3 Helpers

Question

It\'s possible to add a HTML title attribute to an input tag like so:

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { title = \"Customer name\" })
         


        

Answer 1

Custom html helper is probably the neatest solution.

public static MvcHtmlString SpanFor(this HtmlHelper helper, Expression> expression, object htmlAttributes = null)
{
    var valueGetter = expression.Compile();
    var value = valueGetter(helper.ViewData.Model);

    var span = new TagBuilder("span");
    span.MergeAttributes(new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));
    if (value != null)
    {
        span.SetInnerText(value.ToString());
    }

    return MvcHtmlString.Create(span.ToString());
}

=>

@Html.SpanFor(model => model.Name, new { title = "Customer name" })