html-helper

Ok so I want to know how <% using (Html.BeginForm()) { %> <input type="text" name="id"/> <% } %> produce <form> <input type="text" name="id"/> </form> namely how does it add the </form> at the end? I looked in codeplex and didn't find it in the htmlhelper. There is a EndForm method, but how does the above know to call it? The reason is I want to create an htmlhelper extension, but don't know how to close out on the end of a using. Any help would be appreciated :) BeginForm returns an IDisposable which calls EndForm in Dispose . When you write using(Html.BeginForm()) { ... } , the compiler

In MVC3 I have this code at my controller. It retrieves a List of IDs\Names from Installation table and creates a ViewBag var vs = dba.Installation.OrderBy(q => q.InstName).ToList(); ViewBag.Vessels = new SelectList(vs, "InstId", "InstName"); Now, at my view. I want to render the list in a dropdown list. I used the Html helper that works fine... @Html.DropDownList("InstId",(SelectList)ViewBag.Vessels, "- Select one -") I need to set first item in the ViewBag List as a default selected value, instead of "- Select one -" text. How can I do it? Thanks in advance! There's an overload for the

I have a asp.net mvc view that allows the user to enter some description in a textarea. There are two problems that I am facing. Either when I expand the textarea it is expanding without moving other html elements or I am not able to make create a Html.TextBoxFor () multiline textbox. Can anyone suggest a solution to this? If Use Textarea how to make it expand(grow in size) so that it does not overlap with other elements or how to use Html.TextBoxFor() for multiline? This is how my code looks like <% using (Html.BeginForm()) { %> <%: Html.ValidationSummary(true)%> <fieldset> <div class="editor

The end result of what I am trying to do is build a form dynamically by reflecting an object and it's properties. I've created HtmlHelper methods that call TextBoxFor and CheckBoxFor and so on, but now I need help figuring out how to properly reflect the property when passing it to Html.TextBoxFor Here's the helper method: public static MvcHtmlString FormTextBox<TModel>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> helper, String id, String property_name, object model, RouteValueDictionary attributes) { Type model_type = model.GetType(); return helper.TextBoxFor(model_object => model_type.InvokeMember(property_name

I want to setup HtmlHelper::link() method so the default options array have escape = false. How can I achieve this without changing the core class? OBS: I already sanitized form input, so I guess this will have no problem. Thanks in advance. Cake 2.1.5 I just implemented this and I wanted to point out a few things: Your custom html helper should extend HTML helper (and don't forget to include the HTML helper class) App::uses('HtmlHelper', 'View/Helper'); class CustomHtmlHelper extends HtmlHelper { //yadda yadda } Additionally, your call in AppController should not include the word Helper: