I would like my views to be able to specify a class for the <body> tag, which lies in my master page.
My first take was to do something like this:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="BodyClassContent" runat="server">
view-item</asp:Content>
However, that would require this in the master page, which doesn't work:
<body class="<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="BodyClassContent" runat="server" />">
Any solutions to this?
Why don't you do in your masterpage:
<body class="<%=ViewData["bodyClass"].toString()%>">
and then set ViewData["bodyClass"] in your Controller actions? That should be equivalent...
I would suggest a different approach.
You create an hierachy of view models, starting with the MasterModel. When you instantiate a view object, you pass a body class to it.
public class MasterModel { string BodyCss { get; set; }
public MasterModel (string bodyCss)
{
BodyCss = bodyCss;
}
}
public class MyView1Model : MasterModel : base ("body-view1") { }
Then in your master view which should be strongly typed to MasterView:
<%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage<MasterModel>" %>
you just write:
<body class="<%= Model.BodyCss %>"></body>