How to render a self closing tag using TagBuilder?

Question

The following code:

var canonical = new TagBuilder("link");
canonical.MergeAttribute("rel", "canonical");
canonical.MergeAttribute("href", url);
return new MvcHtmlString(canonical.ToString());

Creates a tag:

<link href="http://local.domain.com/" rel="canonical"></link>

Is it possible to render

<link href="http://local.domain.com/" rel="canonical"/>

instead, using TagBuilder?

score 81 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '11 at 23:55

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Have you tried:

canonical.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);

answered Jan 29 '11 at 23:55

Kirk Woll

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I actually didn't see there were that option in `ToString`. That worked, thank you. – BrunoLM Jan 29 '11 at 23:57
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@rock, I'm sure Bruno knows how to accept. ;) And he has to wait a little bit before he's allowed to (since he just asked it). – Kirk Woll Jan 30 '11 at 00:00

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '16 at 23:01

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You can also try.

TagBuilder  tagBuilder = new TagBuilder("link");
tagBuilder.TagRenderMode = TagRenderMode.SelfClosing;

answered Aug 01 '16 at 23:01

maxspan

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The TagRenderMode property seems to only be available on the Asp.Net core version of TagBuilder. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.rendering.tagbuilder.tagrendermode?view=aspnetcore-2.2 – Tikall Sep 24 '19 at 14:11

How to render a self closing tag using TagBuilder?

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