ASP.Net MVC3 - Pass razor markup as a parameter

Question

I have a helper called EditableArea which provides a user with a runtime-editable div (via JS). EditableArea helper checks if an editable area (not

Answer 1

Just to expand on the accepted answer, as it took me quite a while to resolve a similar problem and this is the question which popped up. What I really need was a @helper, which would accept razor text, as the template should contain quite some code. I played around for a long while trying to use several versions of type @helper item(Func input), which I found on the web, with no success. Therefore I went for an approach like:

namespace project.MvcHtmlHelpers
{
    public static class HelperExtensions
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString RazorToMvcString(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Func template)
        {
            return MvcHtmlString.Create(template.Invoke(null).ToString());
        }
    }
}

and

@project.MvcHtmlHelpers    
@helper item(other input, MvcHtmlString content)
    {
        

            ...other stuff... 
            

                @content
            
        
    }

and use this via

@item(other input, @Html.RazorToMvcString(@this is a test))

Now I can use the helper template for both Razor input, but I can also drop in partial views, which is handy at some points. As I am no expert there might be better options, but it seems like a flexible approach to me.