MVC 3 multiple DisplayFor-Templates

Question

I\'m trying to make a custom template for a basket item list. I need a few different templates, as I have different ways of displaying the item, depending on if it\'s on the web

Answer 1

That's a good idea, Darin. I'm lazy though, so I'd like to take it one step further and make an actual helper that wraps this. I also took out the lambda expression to simplify it for my case, but you can easily add that functionality back in.

    public static class DisplayTextListExtension
{
    public static MvcHtmlString DisplayForList(this HtmlHelper html, IEnumerable model, string templateName)
    {
        var tempResult = new StringBuilder();

        foreach (var item in model)
        {
            tempResult.Append(html.DisplayFor(m => item, templateName));
        }

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

Then the actual usage looks like:

                                @Html.DisplayForList(Model.Organizations, "infoBtn")