Html.Label
and Html.LabelFor
helper methods do not support the htmlAttributes parameter like most of the other helpers do. I would like to set the class
however. Something like this:
Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name, new { @class = "control-label" })
Is there an easy way of extending Label/LabelFor without resorting to copying and extending the ILSpy disasm output of those methods?
You can easily extend the label by creating your own LabelFor:
Something like this should do what you need
public static MvcHtmlString LabelFor<TModel, TValue>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> html, Expression<Func<TModel, TValue>> expression, object htmlAttributes)
{
return LabelFor(html, expression, new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));
}
public static MvcHtmlString LabelFor<TModel, TValue>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> html, Expression<Func<TModel, TValue>> expression, IDictionary<string, object> htmlAttributes)
{
ModelMetadata metadata = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, html.ViewData);
string htmlFieldName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
string labelText = metadata.DisplayName ?? metadata.PropertyName ?? htmlFieldName.Split('.').Last();
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(labelText))
{
return MvcHtmlString.Empty;
}
TagBuilder tag = new TagBuilder("label");
tag.MergeAttributes(htmlAttributes);
tag.Attributes.Add("for", html.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldId(htmlFieldName));
tag.SetInnerText(labelText);
return MvcHtmlString.Create(tag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
}
Update
To use the extension method just created in your project, add this line in your Views\web.config
<pages>
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Helpers" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="System.Web.WebPages" />
<add namespace="MyProject.Helpers" /> <-- my extension
...
</namespaces>
</pages>
public static class LabelExtensions
{
public static IHtmlString LabelFor<TModel, TProperty>(
this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper,
Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression,
string labelText,
object htmlAttributes
)
{
var metadata = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression<TModel, TProperty>(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData);
var htmlFieldName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
return LabelHelper(htmlHelper, metadata, htmlFieldName, labelText, htmlAttributes);
}
public static IHtmlString Label(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string expression, string labelText, object htmlAttributes)
{
var metadata = ModelMetadata.FromStringExpression(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData);
return LabelHelper(htmlHelper, metadata, expression, labelText, htmlAttributes);
}
private static IHtmlString LabelHelper(HtmlHelper html, ModelMetadata metadata, string htmlFieldName, string labelText, object htmlAttributes)
{
string str = labelText ?? (metadata.DisplayName ?? (metadata.PropertyName ?? htmlFieldName.Split(new char[] { '.' }).Last<string>()));
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
{
return MvcHtmlString.Empty;
}
TagBuilder tagBuilder = new TagBuilder("label");
tagBuilder.Attributes.Add("for", TagBuilder.CreateSanitizedId(html.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName(htmlFieldName)));
var attributes = new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes);
tagBuilder.MergeAttributes(attributes);
tagBuilder.SetInnerText(str);
return new HtmlString(tagBuilder.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
}
}
and then:
@Html.LabelFor(x => x.SomeProperty, null, new { @class = "foo" })
or:
@Html.Label("SomeProperty", null, new { @class = "foo" })