TagBuilder InnerHtml in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6

Question

It seems to me that there are major breaking changes in TagBuilder as of beta7 with no mention about them in the announcements repo.

Specifically .ToString no longer ren

Answer 1

Beta 8 solved this issue by adding an Append() method to tag helpers.

For beta 7 the solution would be to use the BufferedHtmlContent() class, but since it is not accessible we must do some extra work.

private class MyBufferedHtmlContent : IHtmlContent
{
    internal List Entries { get; } = new List();

    public MyBufferedHtmlContent Append(IHtmlContent htmlContent)
    {
        Entries.Add(htmlContent);
        return this;
    }

    public void WriteTo(TextWriter writer, IHtmlEncoder encoder)
    {
        foreach (var entry in Entries)
        {
            entry.WriteTo(writer, encoder);
        }
    }
}

Usage:

TagBuilder firstChild = new TagBuilder("input");
firstChild.MergeAttribute("type", "hidden");
firstChild.MergeAttribute("name", "Ids");
firstChild.TagRenderMode = TagRenderMode.SelfClosing;

TagBuilder secondChild = new TagBuilder("input");
secondChild.MergeAttribute("type", "hidden");
secondChild.MergeAttribute("name", "Ids");
secondChild.TagRenderMode = TagRenderMode.SelfClosing;

var innerHtml = new MyBufferedHtmlContent();
innerHtml.Append(firstChild);
innerHtml.Append(secondChild);
TagBuilder parent = new TagBuilder("div");
parent.InnerHtml = innerHtml;