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In a previous post we talked about creating custom html helpers . The implementation there involved customizing helpers that already existed in the ASP.NET MVC framework. In this post we will talk about creating our own helpers from scratch. This will allow us to create helpers for any kind of html element and will also provide flexibility on the element building process.

HTML helper methods are used in Razor views to generate HTML markup in a strongly-typed, C-sharpy way. An example is @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Name) , which is used in a strongly-typed view whose model has a Name property. This will generate a label element with the appropriate display name. In this post we will learn how to create a custom HTML helper.