ASP.NET MVC HTML helper methods for new HTML5 input types

Programmer Question

HTML5 appears to support a new range of input fields for things such as:

• Numbers


• Email addresses


• Colors


• URLs


• Numeric range (via a slider)


• Dates


• Search boxes

Has anyone implemented HtmlHelper extension methods for ASP.NET MVC that generates these yet? It's possible to do this using an overload that accepts htmlAttributes, such as:

Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Foo, new { type="number", min="0", max="100" })

But that's not as nice (or typesafe) as:

Html.NumericInputFor(model => model.Foo, min:0, max:100)

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