Razor and HTML Helpers

Question

I\'m trying to port the old HTML.Image helper, that I\'m sure everyone has used at one point or another, and I\'m having issues. The following compiles fine:

Answer 1

I had the same problem and i had used MvcHtmlString as return type for these 2 extension method and it works

public static class ImageHelper
{
    public static MvcHtmlString Image(this HtmlHelper helper, string id, string url, string alternateText)
    {
        return Image(helper, id, url, alternateText, null);
    }

    public static MvcHtmlString Image(this HtmlHelper helper, string id, string url, string alternateText,
                               object htmlAttributes)
    {
        var builder = new TagBuilder("img");

        builder.GenerateId(id);

        builder.MergeAttribute("alt", alternateText);
        builder.MergeAttribute("src",url);

        builder.MergeAttributes(new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));

        return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing));
    }
}