.NET MVC - How to assign a class to Html.LabelFor?

Question

This code

<%= Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name) %>

produces this

Name
         


        

Answer 1

Sadly, in MVC 3 the Html.LabelFor() method has no method signatures that permit a direct class declaration. However, MVC 4 adds 2 overloads that accept an htmlAttributes anonymous object.

As with all HtmlHelpers it's important to remember that the C# compiler sees class as reserved word.

So if you use the @ before the class attribute it works around the problem, ie:

@Html.LabelFor(model => model.PhysicalPostcode, new { @class= "SmallInput" })

The @ symbol makes the "class" a literal that is passed through.