ASP.NET MVC support for HTML output (as opposed to XHTML)

Question

It seems to me that ASP.NET MVC Html Helpers only output XHTML-like tags (closed empty elements), which is not valid HTML.

Is there support for HTML output in ASP.NET MVC?

Answer 1

True... it'll output typically:

<input type="text />

You could certainly write your own HTML Helpers to cover any cases you want.

Answer 2

As pcampbell hinted, you probably need to write your own Html helper to do this. However, it doesn't have to be too hard - if you notice you need one, for example for an <input> element, you could simply do this:

 public static class Html4Extensions
     public string Html4TextBox(this HtmlHelper helper, string name)
     {
         return helper.TextBox(name).Replace("/>", ">");
     }
 }

And then you do the same for every overload you need.