Have a look at the Razor view engine - I find using it results in much cleaner markup.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Karl Oakes <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently learning MVC and although I like HtmlHelpers as they take > away some of the complexity due to the auto magic that is going on, i.e. url > creation and implicit model binding to strongly typed views. I am also torn > as they look so awful and much like web form server controls. I never really > liked web forms because of the core concept of trying to force an event > model into HTTP purely to encapsulate the web into a windows form > environment. I actually moved away from .Net because of this and either > wrote classic ASP/Perl/PHP using nicely constructed valid HTML with > unobtrusive JS, although I did start to use .Net webservices as I found > these a useful compromise. So my point is can I still code clean looking > views using standard HTML or will this be more trouble than it is worth and > just go with HTML helpers, which do output clean HTML anyway. >
