accessing model object from view for MVC asp.net

Question

I have this line of code within my .aspx file

<label title="<%= Model.ProductName %>"></label>

why is it when I run it, the label is not showing at all.

yet if I do something like this it would work:

<%: Html.LabelFor(model => model.ProductName) %>

I would really like for the first method to work, is there a way?

thank you

• bzlm: go read up on the label HTML element. :)

Answer 1

It's because you need to provide contents for this label:

<label title="some title" for="ProductName">
 <%: Model.ProductName %>
</label>

The way you wrote your markup the <label> tag is empty. Also make sure you properly HTML encode the contents. Notice in my example the usage of <%: (available only in ASP.NET 4) instead of <%=. If you are running on previous versions you could use the the following:

<label title="some title" for="ProductName">
 <%= Html.DisplayFor(x => x.ProductName) %>
</label>

• Chen Lu: Thanks for your help, there is another problem, is there a way to set the width for <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Synopsis, new { @class = "wide" })%> I tried adding the class in the css file, but didn't work
• Darin Dimitrov: @Chen Lu, in your separate CSS file you could try defining the wide rule like this: .wide { width: 200px; }.
• Chen Lu: It worked out this way actually: <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Synopsis, new {style="width:300px"} )%> Thanks for your help!