If you in ASP.NET MVC use a Html helper method to render out e.g. an input box:

Sometimes you might need to add an CSS class attribute to your input box (this should be a fairly standard thing). For this there exist overload methods that takes a “htmlAttributes” parameter of type object. Now my experience with this is somewhat similar to Ayende Rahien experience – although I have not begun banging my head against the wall out of frustration. This is not a rant, I love ASP.NET MVC, I just had an experience with something simple that was hard to figure out because of some of the design decisions – not that they are bad, they can just be confusing – especially with the lack of documentation at the current stage (yes, I know it is just a beta). So if you try this:

You will (of course) get a compiler error, since “class” is a keyword and cannot be used like this. So how do you specify the class? Well, like this:

Just for future reference

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