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Peter Kellner
Peter Kellner

Reputation: 15498

What is the Attributes property used for in a HtmlTargetElement attribute

The way an attribute is set on an asp.net core tag helper is as follows:

[HtmlTargetElement("test1",Attributes = "make",ParentTag = "myparent")]

I'm not understanding the syntax Attributes = "make"

I know Attributes is a string that gets passed into the constructor of HtmlTargetElement but what I don't get is the = "make" part. If this were the call list of the method I now that would mean make is the value if null is passed in but I don't understand it when it's on the call method side.

What is the Attributes property used for in a HtmlTargetElement attribute?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2244

Answers (1)

Strake
Strake

Reputation: 762

The HtmlTargetElement attribute is used to specify additional criteria for a TagHelper to use when determining a match. The Attributes property specifies that an html element must contain that value to match. The attribute:

[HtmlTargetElement("test1",Attributes = "make")]``

Would match the following element:

<test1 make></test1>

Also keep in mind that you can decorate a class with multiple [HtmlTargetElement] attributes to result in a logical-OR.

For more examples see this

For official documentation of HtmlTargetElement.Attributes see here

Upvotes: 5

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