How To Create An Htmlhelper Extension Method That Will Bind An Ienumerable To A Table

This is my view model: public class TaskViewModel{ public int TaskID{get;set;} public IEnumerable Executors{get;set;} } public class TaskExecutor{ public

Solution 1:

One option could be as follows:

namespaceSystem.Web.Mvc
{
    publicstaticclassExecutorsExtensions
    {
        publicstatic MvcHtmlString Executors(this HtmlHelper helper, List<TaskExecutor> executors)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.Append("<table>");
            for (var i = 0; i < executors.Count; i++)
            {
                sb.Append("<tr>");
                sb.Append(string.Format("<td><input name=\"Executors[{0}].FirstName\" value=\"{1}\"></td>", i, executors[i].FirstName));

                // add other cells here                 
                sb.Append("<tr>");
            }
            sb.Append("</table>");

            returnnew MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString());

        }
    }
}

Usage

@Html.Executors(Model.Executors)

Please note you would need to make the Executors a List<TaskExecutor> for the indexing to work properly.

The indexing of the loop and and name variable would keep the model binding happy. You could add further fields where I have commented above.

You could also use Html.TextBox or Html.TextBoxFor to generate the inputs if needed.