Html-helper Questions

I understand the reason for having the html helpers in asp.net mvc and extending this to provide your own, but i am wondering whether using html

I'm writing my first asp.net mvc application and i have a question about custom html helpers: for making a form, you can use:

I have found html helpers extremely useful to simplify view pages code. apart from the ones included in the latest release of asp.net mvc

When using actionlink to render data from database which has html tags (ie <p>) incorporated in it,

If i have an html helper like so: name:<br /> <%=html.textbox("txtname",20) %><br /> how do i

Following code, is to populate intakename to a html helper dropdownlist controller code : public actionresult index()

Using preview 4 of