Why is the HtmlHelper instance null in a Razor declarative @helper method?

That's a known limitation of those helpers . One possibility is to pass it as parameter.

Using Drew Noakes suggestion, I have come to a workaround that does the trick for now and that can be easily removed once the issue is solved in a newer version of MVC (that is if more stuff isn't changed that would break it:)).

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