Questions tagged [display-templates]

Display template is a html template which can be repeat for each item in its model and it will load in specific section of a view of asp.net web application. A template can have styles/scripts or Razor codes in itself also.

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MVC Razor display template

I have a list of items that I am passing to a view. I would like to render each item using a display template. However, something is wrong, as I don't get the field properly rendered. Here is my main view (Index.cshtml): @model…
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MVC4 Razor DisplayTemplate called, HTML generated, but not rendered to browser

I've got a view that iterates a collection and calls DisplayFor() for each element in the collection. I need to manually iterate (as opposed to passing the collection to DisplayFor) in order to tell the template if a break in the list should be…
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How do you embed a razor EditorFor View

I have a composable web application where the user enters an item number and one of a number of processors is invoked to handle the action based on what type of item it is. Each "processor" is in a seperate .dll and can be dropped into the…
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ASP.NET MVC 3: Output specific view for concrete implementation

I have an IEnumerable of a base type as my model. I need to display a different bit of HTML in a list depending on what the concrete type is. So the resulting list might look similar to this in HTML:
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Is there any way to use Editor and Display templates with Dictionary in ASP.NET MVC3?

I usually make use of the Editor and Display templates when my model (or submodels) are List objects. This way I avoid to "spoil" my code with several foreach constructs. I wanted to know whether there is any way to use Editor and Display…
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MVC DisplayFor Not Rendering

I am having an issue with a custom display template in an MVC 5 application. I have a viewmodel that contains a complex type that I wanted to reuse. I created the DisplayTemplates folder and placed a partial view that follows the correct naming…
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What is use of UIHint attribute in ASP.Net MVC

just reading about UIHint from this url What is use of UIHint attribute in MVC If you annotate a property with UIHint attribute and use EditorFor or DisplayFor inside your views, ASP.NET MVC framework will look for the specified template which…
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MVC DateTime format can not be parsed

after recently upgrading from MVC3 to 4 I am having some issues with datetimes. I display a date property like this: <%: Html.DisplayFor(m => m.InvoiceDate, "datetime")%>  "datetime" is a display template which looks like this: <%@ Control…
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor DisplayFor Delegate

I'm getting this error: Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions. Here's my code (custom HTML helper, wrapping DisplayFor so i can choose a…
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Why isn't ASP.NET MVC 3 resolving my DisplayTemplate for a complex type?

I've been using DisplayTemplates/EditorTemplates for relatively simple types, like DateTime and DateTime?, etc. Now I want to use it to render a more complex type that is handing off my view model. The complex type is basically an entity from EF.…
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MvcSiteMap - NullreferenceException when iterating over the Model.Nodes. (ASP.NET MVC3 Razor)

I have some problem with MvcSiteMap. I get NullreferenceException when interating over Model.Nodes because Model is NULL. I got it working with @Html.MvcSiteMap().Menu() but when I try the samples from your DisplayTemplate I get that…
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How to set the DisplayFormatString property on ModelMetadata object in razor-engine?

I have an Asp.Net MVC 5 project. I am trying to utilize the DisplayTemplates to make my view more dynamic. I am trying to create a display-template for any DateTime property. But I am unable to set ViewData.ModelMetadata.DisplayFormatString…
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Default output for DisplayTemplate of a class

We are building a class library that provides certain structured types for the view model, e.g. InlineImage. I need to be able to define default HTML output for such instance when used with @Html.DisplayFor(...), basically ... When…
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content type description value in Content search web part

In content search web part using managed property (ContentType), i am able to get content type "Title" for the list items. but my problem is i need to fetch content type "Description" not the title. I have searched for content type description…
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Format to Currency using DisplayFor Html Helper

I have page that will show some currency data. I want to format the data with currency format but only using Display Template. I have the following code: @foreach (var item in Model.Data) {
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