MVC - Html Helper That Renders An Action To As A String
Nov 23, 2010I need an Html Helper that renders an action to as a string.
View 1 RepliesI need an Html Helper that renders an action to as a string.
View 1 Repliesis it possible to get the result of an action into a string variable
I need something like this:
public ActionResult Do()
{
var s = this.Index().GetStringResult();
...
}
Does the RenderSection(string contentName, bool isRequired) method renders all the content sections mentioned in the method?
<div data-role="content">
@RenderSection("ContentSection", true)
</div>
so, does all the ContentSectionin all the cshtml files are rendered automatically?
When I try to serialize <%: Html.CheckBox("Something", true) %> in jquery (using form.serialize()) I get two checkboxes, one says true, and the other false. I am aware that MVC renders true, false for checkboxes that are true, so if I wasn't coming through javascript, I'd just check for the presence of true, but how do I know if my checkbox is checked after doing form.serialize?
View 2 RepliesI think I need to drop in some escape characters, but I'm not quite sure where. Here is the javascript function I'm attempting to call:
function setData(associateValue, reviewDateValue) {
var associate = document.getElementById("Associate");
var reviewDate = document.getElementById("ReviewDate");
associate.value = associateValue;
reviewDate.value = reviewDateValue;
}
Here is the asp .net mvc line where I'm attempting to create a Radio button with a click event that calls the above function and passes data from the model as javascript parameter values.
<%= Html.RadioButton("Selected", item.Selected, new { onClick="setData('<%=item.Associate%>','<%=item.ReviewDate%>' )" } )%>
The above throws a bunch of compile issues and doesn't work. A call such as the following does call the javascript, but doesn't get the data from the model.
<%= Html.RadioButton("Selected", item.Selected, new { onClick="setData('item.Associate','item.ReviewDate' )" } )%>
<%= Html.RadioButton("Selected", item.Selected, new { onClick="setData('item.Associate','item.ReviewDate' )" } )%>
<% String functionCall = String.Format("setData('{0}','{1}')", Html.Encode(item.Associate), Html.Encode(item.ReviewDate )) ; %>
<%= Html.RadioButton("Selected", item.Selected, new { onClick=functionCall } )%>
I took over some old php application with MySQL as database. Inside the database, there are tables including content with localized strings (therefore containing special chars)Currently there is a PHP application accessing that database. My job is to create an ASP.net (C# codebehind) application that accesses that strings as well. That works, as far as encoding goes.If I try to access these strings, I do get a kind of encoding problem, like 'Ändern' and 'Prüfzeichen', but only in the ASP.net application. The PHP app sets utf-8 as charset and the strings are perfectly rendered. In the ASP.net application it's gibberish, regardless of the page encoding.In the MySQL database, the charset for the specified table 'translations' is set to 'latin --cp1252 West European' and collation to 'latin_swedish_ci'.I can't seem to figure out what PHP apparently does, and ASP.net does not. I traced the php code and could not find any sign of special encoding while getting a string from the database.The question is, how can I ensure correct encoding inside the ASP.net application without modifying the database, because big changes at the php code are not possible?
View 3 RepliesIt's a little unclear for me on when to use a custom helper method and when to use RenderAction and also when to simply use ViewData instead. Some of their functions overlap slightly.
For example, if I were to create a Category navigation bar, would I create a new helper method and place that in some partial view? I had initially though of doing this, but I read on some blog to use RenderAction instead.
Assume the list of categories is coming from some data source.
<%= Html.RouteLink(">>>", new { page = (Model.PageIndex + 1) },null)%>
Is it possible to set image instead ">>>" and how?
I try to run each control and then check what html did it render.
But this seems to me as an inaccurate method as whenever we add or remove the properties, or events of the control,the rendered HTML changes. Is there any book/tutorial/article to explain what is the standard HTML rendered by each asp.net control.
I've been using Html.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName") to invoke child actions across controllers without needing to have the view in ViewsShared. This has been working great for displaying things like session or cookie information.
Instead of just accessing cookies, I would like to pass additional parameters to Html.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName") so the action can execute different code based on the the data passed to the original view.
Should I be using a different method to pass parameters to a child action in a different controller?
I was wondering if it's possible to render an Html Helper in a View inside a codeblock. So instead of:
[code]....
And have this render. Of course as it is, it wont render, so is there a way to programically decide if a textbox can be added without having to have a million delimiters in the page to accomplish this?
I am trying to create 2 Html helpers but that use the String Type as in MVC 2.
1. Html.FileFor Would render something like: <input type="file"
2. Html.Buttom and Html.Submit that would render <input type="button" or <input type="submit" In this case I suppose it makes no sense to have the For.
I know how to do (2) unless there would be something more than rendering the help and defining the Html attributes. However (1) I don't know how to do it
Can we set an id attribute as I would for something like a table column via: for an html dropdown list element that is created with a helper such as:
<% for (int i = 0; i < Model.Trx.TransactionHolidayCityCollection.Count; i++)
{%>
<%= i > 0 ? "," : "" %>
<%= DropDownData.HolidayDays().ToList().Find(item => item.Value == Model.Trx.TransactionHolidayCityCollection[i].HolidayCityID.Value.ToString()).Text %>
<%} %>
Is there a way to retrieve the client side ID for a model property similar to how the helpers like LabelFor etc generate the ID? For example, I have a model with a DateOfBirth property. I want to hook up that field to a jQuery DatePicker. Normally, I would hook up the date picker like this:
[Code]....
This works fine but hard codes the DateOfBirth property name. Ideally, I would like to use this:
[Code]....
Is this already available out of the box somewhere? I just created an extension method on the HtmlHelper class that does exactly this, but I wondered if there was already something built-in so I don't have to reinvent and test the wheel.
i am using html.textboxfor to display the amount (int) from my model. currently once the form is shown, the default amount is = 0. i wish to have the default set as 1, is it possible to overwrite the default for html helper??
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im extending the htmlhelper. but it i cannot call the renderaction of it.
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
public static class ViewHelpers
{
public static string Text(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string name, object value, bool isEditMode)
{
htmlHelper.RenderAction(...) //cannot be called
}
}
how can i call the RenderAction?
I am using a view based of a formView.. say LogonViewForm (having userName and password) what i want to do is , suppose i enter my username and password and my account is not verified after logon. Its gives me a message as your account is not verified and redirects me to another view, what i want is it must be already having my username in its username textbox and must be disbaled. rite now i can pass the username value to verify view.. but can`t get how to disable the textbox.
View 4 RepliesI was using the default MailMessage and SmtpClient classes for creating and sending HTML emails from a web forms website. The problem is I have a lot of hard coded HTML for formatting the email that gets sent. Is there a class that helps format emails for .NET?
View 2 RepliesI think (I read it somewhere and can't find the source again) there is a new Google Analytics Html Helper on MVC 3 Beta.
Where can I find the source for this helper?
I have retrieved an array of data that I want to display in my view in checkbox format.
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I have a custom Html Helper that takes a few parameters and generates some Html. For example:
[Code]....
This would render something like:
[Code]....
I would like to be able to define a Razor Template so the Html Helper renders the Html differenlty:
[Code]....
This would render:
[Code]....
In a webforms application, it's possible to add a server control to the markup and then access that control from the corresponding code behind file, but I'm not sure of the MVC equivalent of this functionality.
I've been looking at some tutorials, and it appears that in MVC applications, instead of using server controls, the examples are using HTML helpers, such as Html.TextBox, etc.
However, while I can find examples html helpers in views, I can't find any examples of how these helpers are accessed in the controllers, so I've declared an Html.TextBox in my view but don't know how to access its value in the controller when I hit enter.
how can I create a html helper for tny mce htlm editor?
View 1 RepliesI would in normal asp.net use a theme to turn off autocomplete on all text boxes on an entire site. However i cannot do this on MVC because nothing in the theme .skin files seems to work.
I have this in my .skin file:
<asp:TextBox runat="server" autocomplete="off" />
however this does not render at all, of course because this is not how MVC works. Anyway is there any way i can get this sort of thing to work.The site i am trying to do it on is too big to warrant changing every textbox or creating a new HTML helper to solve the issue?
I'm new to MVC and am trying to create some more user friendly controls for use on the Create views. I'm able to render a control using a combination of extensions and partial views, however I am unable to bind to those controls as I am with the out of the box controls like html.textboxfor such as:
Html.TextBoxFor( model => model.Capability_Menu_Group_Id)
Although the controls renders on the create form, the value is not set on create. I would like to set up this same construct used with TextBoxFor for my custom controls.