I understand that in Razor, @Html does a bunch of neat things, like generate HTML for links, inputs, etc.
But I don't get the DisplayFor function...
Why would I write:
@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Title)
when I could just write:
@Model.Title
Html.DisplayFor()
will render the DisplayTemplate that matches the property's type.
If it can't find any, I suppose it invokes .ToString()
.
If you don't know about display templates, they're partial views that can be put in a DisplayTemplates
folder inside the view folder associated to a controller.
Example:
If you create a view named String.cshtml
inside the DisplayTemplates
folder of your views folder (e.g Home
, or Shared
) with the following code:
@model string
@if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model)) {
<strong>Null string</strong>
}
else {
@Model
}
Then @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Title)
(assuming that Title
is a string) will use the template and display <strong>Null string</strong>
if the string is null, or empty.