Conflict with @Html.LabelFor and W3C Validator?
- by Tyler
I have a model that I am using to present an index of a model from a database and have given a display name to some of the rows that may need spaces in them, (I.e. "weekstarting" in a db would be given a display name of "Week Starting").
So I set the display name for my model like this:
[DisplayName("Week Starting")]
public DateTime WeekStarting { get; set; }
and then in the table headers for my table I use the following line of code to display the field name using its given display name:
@Html.LabelFor(x => x.First().WeekStarting)
The above all works fine. But I am using the W3C validator and it is giving me the following error for the example I have given:
The for attribute of the label element must refer to a form control.
Forgive me if it is obvious but what am I doing wrong here? I am not using a form I am simply displaying an index of items in a table. I have tried to look for an answer and saw someone suggest that the form controls being referred to need ids (even though I'm not using a form) but this would not be applicable in this instance because if I tried to set an id in the index it would be duplicated with each item in the index:
foreach (var item in Model.Tbms)
{
<tr><td>@item.value</td><tr>.... would be repeated for each item, and also unsure where I would put the id in any case, the td?
}
Or is there a better way to label the field header, with my preferred display name in the first place? I guess I could just swap @Html.LabelFor... for Hard code field name but do I have to?
