MVC View adding in quotations to html attribute - html

Question

I am working on a small project and in the partial navigation view I am checking if a page is selected and highlighting the menu.
var controller = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString().ToLower();
var home = string.Empty;
var content = string.Empty;
switch(controller) {
case "home":
home = "class=current";
break;
case "content":
content = "class=current";
break;
}
In the view I am then doing:
<li #home>Home</li>
Originally in my code I had
home = "class='current'";
Notice I had quotations around it, but when I executed the code the html source looks like
So when I remove the quatations and run it again, since it's adding them in by default, it works, even though the debugger looks like
So the project is working, my question is why is it by default adding in the quotations?

Answer 1

I'm not certain that MVC is adding the quotes, that is probably the Chrome DevTools doing it. If you "View page source", I don't think you will see the quotes.
Just FYI, because of these kinds of things I usually don't include the attribute in such strings, just the value...
<li class="#home">

Answer 2

MVC doesn't add quotes for #home. If you decompile this page, you could get codes like below:
public class _Page_Views_Home_Index_cshtml : WebViewPage<object>
{
// Methods
public override void Execute()
{
((dynamic) base.ViewBag).Title = "Home Page";
base.BeginContext("~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml", 0x27, 2, true);
this.WriteLiteral("\r\n");
base.EndContext("~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml", 0x27, 2, true);
string str = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();
string str2 = string.Empty;
string str3 = string.Empty;
string str4 = str;
if (str4 != null)
{
if (!(str4 == "Home"))
{
if (str4 == "content")
{
str3 = "class=current";
}
}
else
{
str2 = "class=current";
}
}
base.BeginContext("~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml", 0x1a6, 9, true);
this.WriteLiteral("\r\n\r\n<div ");
base.EndContext("~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml", 0x1a6, 9, true);
base.BeginContext("~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml", 0x1b0, 4, false);
this.Write(str2);
....
}
}
The Write methods will finally calls WebUtility.HtmlDecode method, this method replaces special chars, but will not add quotes.
Hope this helps.