ASP.NET MVC HTML helper methods for new HTML5 input types

Question

HTML5 appears to support a new range of input fields for things such as:

• Numbers
• Email addresses
• Colors
• URLs
• Numeric range (via a slider)
• Dates
• Search boxes

Has anyone implemented HtmlHelper extension methods for ASP.NET MVC that generates these yet? It's possible to do this using an overload that accepts htmlAttributes, such as:

Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Foo, new { type="number", min="0", max="100" })

But that's not as nice (or typesafe) as:

Html.NumericInputFor(model => model.Foo, min:0, max:100)

Answer 1

Check out the ASP.net MVC HTML5 Helpers Toolkit