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copied!<p>Here is an <a href="http://cru.caes.ucdavis.edu/blog/posts/its-magic/extend-mvc-labelfor-method" rel="noreferrer">blog post</a> that describes how to do this.</p> <p>To give you a small example modified from the site above (note - I have not compiled/tested this):</p> <pre><code>namespace HelpRequest.Controllers.Helpers { public static class LabelExtensions { public static MvcHtmlString Label(this HtmlHelper html, string expression, string id = "", bool generatedId = false) { return LabelHelper(html, ModelMetadata.FromStringExpression(expression, html.ViewData), expression, id, generatedId); } [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1006:DoNotNestGenericTypesInMemberSignatures", Justification = "This is an appropriate nesting of generic types")] public static MvcHtmlString LabelFor<TModel, TValue>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> html, Expression<Func<TModel, TValue>> expression, string id = "", bool generatedId = false) { return LabelHelper(html, ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, html.ViewData), ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression), id, generatedId); } internal static MvcHtmlString LabelHelper(HtmlHelper html, ModelMetadata metadata, string htmlFieldName, string id, bool generatedId) { string labelText = metadata.DisplayName ?? metadata.PropertyName ?? htmlFieldName.Split('.').Last(); if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(labelText)) { return MvcHtmlString.Empty; } var sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.Append(labelText); if (metadata.IsRequired) sb.Append("*"); var tag = new TagBuilder("label"); if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(id)) { tag.Attributes.Add("id", id); } else if (generatedId) { tag.Attributes.Add("id", html.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldId(htmlFieldName) + "_Label"); } tag.Attributes.Add("for", html.ViewContext.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldId(htmlFieldName)); tag.SetInnerText(sb.ToString()); return MvcHtmlString.Create(tag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal)); } } } </code></pre>

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