title: ASP.NET MVC and Model Binding?
body: <p>In my effort to convert few asp.net webforms into MVC razor views, I have converted all server side controls into equivalent HTML tags.</p>
  
  <p>I am a bit late to realise that I should have used MVC HTML helpers, The issue here is I am not able to bind HTML tags values to strongly typed view request.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way in MVC-3 to map Model properties with HTML tags, without using HTML helpers?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Consider following Model class:
  class Person
  {
      public string FirstName{get; set;}
  }
  View
  @model MyApplication.Models.Person
  
  &lt;input type="text" id="txtFirstName" **???**/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In place of <code>???</code> I am expecting some attribute here to bind input to <code>FirstName</code> property of Model.</p>
  
  <p>Is it feasible ?</p>