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This works for grabbing the headers( NOT VALUES ): @model IEnumerable<SomeModel> ... <th>@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.SomeModelProperty)</th> Which if SomeModelProperty were: [Display(Name = "An Excellent Header")] SomeModelProperty { get; set; } Then it would display "An Excellent Header" in the header th element. You would think this wouldn't work because the model is IEnumerable, which wouldn't have a m.SomeModelProperty, but it works because HtmlHelper has a HtmlHelper<IEnumerable<TModel>> such that the parameter of the lambda is TModel , not IEnumerable<TModel> . Since this just uses metadata, there is no need for an item from the collection. (Although intellisense on m. will lie to you and make you think it's a collection). I'm not sure when this cool overload was added, but is quite handy for Index.cshtml and does away with funky things like @Html.DisplayNameFor(m => @Model.FirstOrDefault().SomeModelProperty) which I want to avoid. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh833697(v=vs.108).aspx However, I can't figure out how to get this to work when my model is not IEnumerable, but instead contains IEnumerable as a property, such as: public class SomeList { public List<SomeModel> SomeModels { get; set; } public int Page { get; set; } public DateTime CurrentAsOf { get; set; } } I was hoping to be explicit with the generic type parameters, but I think the type parameters are specified by the engine that trickles down from the HtmlHelper created with the page. Can I declare a new HtmlHelper in the page, or somehow specify the type parameters explicitly? Index.cshtml: @m

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