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

As I've recently come to play with creating IDisposable classes, I think this would be both efficient for this specific task, and much easier to read:

Create some very simple classes

    /// 

    /// https://stackoverflow.com/a/36476600/2343
    /// 
    public class Table : IDisposable
    {
        private StringBuilder _sb;

        public Table(StringBuilder sb, string id = "default", string classValue="")
        {
            _sb = sb;
            _sb.Append($"\n");
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _sb.Append("");
        }

        public Row AddRow()
        {
            return new Row(_sb);
        }

        public Row AddHeaderRow()
        {
            return new Row(_sb, true);
        }

        public void StartTableBody()
        {
            _sb.Append("");

        }

        public void EndTableBody()
        {
            _sb.Append("");

        }
    }

    public class Row : IDisposable
    {
        private StringBuilder _sb;
        private bool _isHeader;
        public Row(StringBuilder sb, bool isHeader = false)
        {
            _sb = sb;
            _isHeader = isHeader;
            if (_isHeader)
            {
                _sb.Append("\n");
            }
            _sb.Append("\t\n");
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _sb.Append("\t\n");
            if (_isHeader)
            {
                _sb.Append("\n");
            }
        }

        public void AddCell(string innerText)
        {
            _sb.Append("\t\t\n");
            _sb.Append("\t\t\t"+innerText);
            _sb.Append("\t\t\n");
        }
    }
}

Then you can define your table using:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

using (Html.Table table = new Html.Table(sb))
{
    foreach (var invalidCompany in mailMessageObject.InvalidCompanies)
    {
        using (Html.Row row = table.AddRow())
        {
            row.AddCell(invalidCompany.BusinessName);
            row.AddCell(invalidCompany.SwiftBIC);
            row.AddCell(invalidCompany.IBAN);
        }
    }
}

string finishedTable = sb.ToString();