URI Fields

If you need to collect URI/URL data then that will automatically be handled for you with a HTML5 <input type="url"> field.

Any one of the following model types will trigger one of these fields:

public Uri Uri { get; set; }

[DataType(DataType.Url)]
public string Url { get; set; }

[Url]
public string Url { get; set; }

With the default global configuration, using a Uri will also result in server-side validation - the value will get parsed by the Uri class to check validity. The [Url] against a string will also result in (rudimentary) validation (starts with http://, https:// or ftp://).

Default HTML

<input %validationAttrs% %htmlAttributes% id="%propertyName%" name="%propertyName%" type="url" value="%value%" />

Configurability

Specify URL

You can specify your property as a URL value, which will automatically validate server-side for a valid HTTP or HTTPS URL on the server-side (if using Uri with a [DataType(DataType.Url)] attribute) or starting with ftp://, http:// or https:// (if using string with [Url]):

[DataType(DataType.Url)]
public Uri Url { get; set; }

[Url]
public string Url { get; set; }

Note: if you specify the [Url] attribute with a Uri type it will always fail server-side validation because the built-in [Url] attribute expects a string.