Dynamically create HTML table in C#

Question

Is there more efficient way to build HTML table than the one I\'m trying on right now?

I\'m getting an object and it has some list of entities in it. So I need to pa

Answer 1

It is a decent approach, and just 'what it takes' to output something as complicated as HTML - unless you want to do it using plain strings (which is just as messy, if not worse).

One improvement: do not use the same cell object multiple times, you run the risk of getting incorrect output. Improved code:

row.Cells.Add(new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = invalidCompany.BusinessName });
row.Cells.Add(new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = invalidCompany.SwiftBIC });
row.Cells.Add(new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = invalidCompany.IBAN });

Of course you can also create your own helpers for creating cells, for creating a row full of cells, etc. There are also good libraries for this, e.g. see https://www.nuget.org/packages/HtmlTags/.