Why use TagBuilder instead of StringBuilder?

Question

what\'s the difference in using tag builder and string builder to create a table in a htmlhelper class, or using the HtmlTable?

aren\'t they generating the same thin

Answer 1

TagBuilder is a class that specially designed for creating html tags and their content. You are right saying that result will be anyway a string and of course you still can use StringBuilder and the result will be the same, but you can do things easier with TagBuilder. Lets say you need to generate a tag:

Using StringBuilder you need to write something like this:

var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("");
sb.ToString();

It is not very cool, isn’t it? And compare how you can build it using TagBuilder;

var tb = new TagBuilder("a");
tb.MergeAttribute("href",link);
tb.AddCssClass(cssClass);
tb.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);

Isn't that better?