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    <p>I'm still getting my feet wet with MVC and working on a site that uses a lot of "tiles" (you know, the usual "rectangular section with standardized header and some content" pattern) for the visual display. There's nothing fancy, just a way to put content into boxes for ease of layout and navigation. Currently the "tiles" (my term) are built like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="tile"&gt; &lt;div class="tile-header"&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Title&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="tile-body"&gt; (arbitrary content) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><em>Note: "arbitrary content" means any content, either static or dynamic, so not necessarily something I can plug into a variable and pass into a helper, I need a bit more flexibility.</em></p> <p>My question is, what is the optimal method to use to encapsulate this pattern and make it easier/more expressive to call from code? I know about partial views, but how would I pass arbitrary body content to a partial view? (This may simply be my limited knowledge of MVC showing) </p> <p>I tried building Razor helpers like this:</p> <pre><code>@Tile.Begin("Title") (arbitrary content) @Tile.End() </code></pre> <p>But Razor chokes because I can't include the "tile-body" closing div. (If I do then I have to pass the body content as a string variable, and that isn't always feasible)</p> <p>I could see something like this:</p> <pre><code>@using (Tile.Begin("Title")) { (arbitrary content) } </code></pre> <p>This seems the most elegant to me, though not as easy to scan as the @Tile.Begin() and @Tile.End() calls. From what I understand I would have to create a class and implement IDisposable, but when I tried returning a string of raw HTML tags from a helper class it simply wrote the encoded tag syntax to the screen, so I assume I'd run into the same issue here?</p> <p>Thanks for any advice. :)</p>
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    1. COAre you talking about fixed (static) tiles? or Dynamic (data driven) tiles? That is, do you want to define the tiles in your .cshtml files, or do you want to build the times in code?
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    2. COActually both. For example, right now I'm building a screen that is essentially a collection of lists, each list iterating a collection of models. These models are attached to the view model that is passed to the view. So in essence the view is taking each model collection and building a tile for it, with links. This one I can wrap up in a helper, sure. But another page has the same tile format with static content, which I can't just pass in as a variable. I'd rather have _one_ central place to maintain the layout for the tiles since that is DRY, but I just don't know how to get there. Thanks.
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    3. COActually no I can't easily wrap this one into a helper either, because not all models have the same method call. I guess I can just overload ToString() on each model, unless that is an anti-pattern?
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