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    copied!<p>I would like to create a HtmlHelper for creating a html table. I would like the helper to be able to take a list of any type of object and a list of the properties of the object to display as columns. Something like this:</p> <pre><code>public static HtmlString Table(this HtmlHelper helper, List&lt;T&gt; data, List&lt;string&gt; headers) { //Tags TagBuilder table = new TagBuilder("table"); TagBuilder tr = new TagBuilder("tr"); TagBuilder td = new TagBuilder("td"); TagBuilder th = new TagBuilder("th"); //Inner html of table StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); //Add headers foreach (var s in headers) { th.InnerHtml = s; tr.InnerHtml += th.ToString(); } sb.Append(tr.ToString()); //Add data foreach (var d in data) { tr.InnerHtml = ""; foreach (var h in headers) { td.InnerHtml = d.h.ToString(); tr.InnerHtml += td.ToString(); } sb.Append(tr.ToString()); } table.InnerHtml = sb.ToString(); return new HtmlString(table.ToString()); } </code></pre> <p>This code will of course not work, but I am wondering if it would be possible to make something similar? And how I might go about doing that.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> </p> <p>I chose the following solution, the idea was that the table should only contain the elements specified in the headers list, so this is what i came up with:</p> <pre><code>public static HtmlString Table&lt;T&gt;(this HtmlHelper helper, List&lt;T&gt; data, List&lt;string&gt; headers) { //Tags TagBuilder table = new TagBuilder("table"); TagBuilder tr = new TagBuilder("tr"); TagBuilder td = new TagBuilder("td"); TagBuilder th = new TagBuilder("th"); //Inner html of table StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); //Add headers foreach (var s in headers) { th.InnerHtml = s; tr.InnerHtml += th.ToString(); } sb.Append(tr.ToString()); //Add data foreach (var d in data) { tr.InnerHtml = ""; foreach (var h in headers) { td.InnerHtml = d.GetType().GetProperty(h).GetValue(d, null).ToString(); tr.InnerHtml += td.ToString(); } sb.Append(tr.ToString()); } table.InnerHtml = sb.ToString(); return new HtmlString(table.ToString()); } </code></pre>
 

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