ASP.NET MVC 1 shipped with a set of HTML helper methods that can be used within view templates to help with the generation of HTML UI.  For example, to output a textbox you could write code (within your .aspx view template) using the Html.TextBox() helper method below:

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The first parameter to the helper method above supplies the name/id for the textbox, and the second parameter specifies the value it should have.  The helper method above would then render HTML like below back to a browser:

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