I'm looking to set the <body> class as well based on the view.
I've read a few posts about strongly typing the master page but none seem to exactly fit, or at least I don't know how to code it.
I have noticed that Stack Overflwow does it, so it must be possible.
Updated:
Getting error: Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.
Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' does not contain a definition for 'Body' and no extension method 'Body' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) on the body line
namespace MySite.Helpers
{
public static class HtmlHelpers
{
public static MvcHtmlString Body(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper)
{
string currentControllerName = (string)htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
string currentActionName = (string)htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"];
string css = currentControllerName + "-" + currentActionName;
var body = new TagBuilder("body");
body.AddCssClass(css);
return MvcHtmlString.Create(body.ToString(TagRenderMode.StartTag));
}
}
}
~/Views/Shared/Site.Master:
<%@ Master Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /></title>
<link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body id="argh" class="<%= Html.Body() %>">