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?

Legation

Answer 1

Have you tried:

canonical.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);

Matthews

I actually didn't see there were that option in ToString. That worked, thank you. – Legation

@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). – Matthews

Answer 2

You can also try.

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

Eraeradiate

The TagRenderMode property seems to only be available on the Asp.Net core version of TagBuilder. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/… – Monique