Create Custom Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core

As an ASP.NET developer you are already familiar with server controls and HTML helpers. What do they do? Simply put they execute some server side logic and generate HTML markup. The HTML markup thus generated is then rendered in the browser. In ASP.NET core you can continue to use HTML helpers as in ASP.NET MVC. However, there is a better alternative - Tag Helpers.

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