Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services 6.0.0-preview.1

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dotnet add package Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services --version 6.0.0-preview.1                
NuGet\Install-Package Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services -Version 6.0.0-preview.1                
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<PackageReference Include="Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services" Version="6.0.0-preview.1" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services --version 6.0.0-preview.1                
#r "nuget: Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services, 6.0.0-preview.1"                
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// Install Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services&version=6.0.0-preview.1&prerelease

// Install Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.Services&version=6.0.0-preview.1&prerelease                

Blazor Head Element Helper NuGet Package

Summary

This components and services allows you to change the title of document, "meta" elements such as OGP, and "link" elements such as canonical url, favicon etc. on your Blazor app.

This package supports both seiver-side Blazor and client-side Blazor WebAssembly app.

And also supports server-side pre-rendering on your server-side Blazor app.

See also following the live demonstration sites.

Notice

Blazor since .NET 5.0 Preview 8 also started to provide Title, Link, and Meta components by Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web.Extensions NuGet package.

However, I'll continue to provide this package and keep to maintain, because this library still has some advantages.

To know what differences are there between this library and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web.Extensions 5.0 preview 8, please see the following table.

Feature This library .NET5 Preview 8
Server Pre-Rendering Supported. Not Supported, yet.
Respecting pre-rendered title Yes. No. It is never recovered if any components override it.
Overriding pre-rendered meta or link Can handle it properly. Just append it. it may cause duplication.
Canceling "meta http-equiv=refresh" Works well. There is no support.
Using it as a service, not components Supported. Not Supported.
To Including helper JavaScript Automatic. Required manually.

How to use

Installation

  1. Add package to your project like this.
dotnet add package Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement
  1. Register "Head Element Helper" service at your Blazor app's Startup.
using Toolbelt.Blazor.Extensions.DependencyInjection; // <- Add this, and...

public class Startup
{
  public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
  {
    services.AddHeadElementHelper(); // <- Add this.
    ...

If the project is Blazor WebAssembly App v.3.2+, you should do it in Program class, instead.

using Toolbelt.Blazor.Extensions.DependencyInjection; // <- Add this, and...
...
public class Program
{
  public static async Task Main(string[] args)
  {
    var builder = WebAssemblyHostBuilder.CreateDefault(args);
    ...
    builder.Services.AddHeadElementHelper(); // <- Add this.
    ...
  1. Open Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement namespace in _Imports.razor file.
@* This is "_Imports.razor" *@
...
@using Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement

A. Change the title of the document

  1. Markup <Title> component in your .razor file.
@* This is "Pages/Counter.razor" *@
@page "/counter"

<Title>Counter(@currentCount) - Server Side App</Title>

The title of document will be changed.

fig1

B. Change "meta" elements

You can also add or override "meta" elements at runtime dynamically using <Meta> component like this.

@* This is "Pages/Counter.razor" *@
@page "/counter"

<Meta Property="ogp:title" Content="Counter" />

Note: You can also use native attribute names (lower and kebab case. ex: "http-equiv") instead of Razor component parameter names (pascal case).

You can add or override "link" elements at runtime dynamically using <Link> component like this.

@* This is "Pages/Counter.razor" *@
@page "/counter"

<Link Rel="icon" Href="@($"/favicons/{GetFaviconName()}")" />

fig3

Note: You can also use native attribute names (lower and kebab case) instead of Razor component parameter names (pascal case).

D. IHeadElementHelper

You can do these tasks by using IHeadElementHelper service instead of using <Title>, <Meta>, and <Link> components.

You can get the IHeadElementHelper service instnace by "Dependency Injection" mechanism.

@inject IHeadElementHelper HeadElementHelper
@using static Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.MetaElement
...
@code {
  protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync()
  {
    await HeadElementHelper.SetTitleAsync("Wow!");
    await HeadElementHelper.SetMetaElementsAsync(
      ByName("description", "Foo bar..."),
      ByProp("og:title", "WoW!")
    );
    await HeadElementHelper.SetLinkElementsAsync(
      new LinkElement("canonical", "https://foo.com/bar")
    );
    ...

Server-side pre-rendering support

If you want to get srever-side pre-rendering support, do this.

  1. Add Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.ServerPrerendering package to your project like this.
dotnet add package Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.ServerPrerendering
  1. Register "Head Element Server Prerendering" middleware at your server-side Blazor app's Startup, before app.UseStaticFiles().
using Toolbelt.Blazor.Extensions.DependencyInjection; // <- Add this, and...
...
public class Startup
{
  ...
  public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
  {
    services.AddHeadElementHelper(); // <!- Don't miss this line, and...
    ...

  public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
  {
    app.UseHeadElementServerPrerendering(); // <- Add this.
    ...
    app.UseStaticFiles()
    ...

fig2

License

Mozilla Public License Version 2.0

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NuGet packages (2)

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Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement

Head element support (change the document title, "meta" elements such as OGP, and "link" elements such as canonical url, favicon) for Blazor apps.

Toolbelt.Blazor.HeadElement.ServerPrerendering

Head element support (change the document title, "meta" elements such as OGP, and "link" elements such as canonical url, favicon) for Blazor apps.

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v.6.0.0
- Improve: load the helper JavaScript by Blazor JavaScript isolation feature (ES2015 module system) instead of using "eval".