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ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals Build cross-platform apps and dynamic web services with this server-side web application framework

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Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789538915
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Onur Gumus Onur Gumus
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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi
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Tag Helpers


Tag Helpers are a new feature in ASP.NET Core; they help generate HTML elements. In HTML helpers, we will write C#/Razor code to generate HTML. The disadvantage associated with this approach is that many frontend engineers will not know C#/Razor code; they work with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Tag Helpers look just like HTML code, but have all the features of server-side rendering. You can even build custom Tag Helpers as per your needs. The advantage of Razor over Tag helpers is that while Tag Helpers are more frontend-developer friendly, sometimes we might need the power of Razor, as it is a powerful programming model. 

Let's take a look at how to use a Tag Helper. The Tag Helpers package is already included in the Microsoft.AspNet.Core.All NuGet package.

Remember, we have already added Tag Helpers support to the ViewImports file in the preceding section.

Had we included the _ViewImports.cshtml file under the Home folder, Tag Helpers would be available only for the views...

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