Defining Views

We’ll dive into defining views with HTML helper and tag helper. Let’s begin with defining views.

Defining views with HTML Helper methods

While creating a view for ASP.NET Core MVC, we can use the HTML object and its methods to generate markup. When Microsoft introduced ASP.NET MVC in 2009, these HTML Helper methods were the way to programmatically render HTML. Modern ASP.NET Core retains these HTML Helper methods for backward compatibility and provides Tag Helpers that are usually easier to read and write in most scenarios. But there are notable situations where Tag Helpers cannot be used, like in Razor components.

Methods

Some useful methods include the following:

• ActionLink: Use this to generate an anchor <a> element that contains a URL path to the specified controller and action. For ...