From 1778a18809659b393c8c97f658afa3cf74e5986e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rameel <rameel-b@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2026 23:11:43 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Change HtmxHeaderTagHelper.Headers to IDictionary<string,
 string>

---
 .../TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.cs             | 2 +-
 src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderTagHelper.cs    | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.cs b/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.cs
index b1a5bd9..a2fc086 100644
--- a/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.cs
+++ b/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.cs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace Ramstack.HtmxToolkit.TagHelpers;
 
-[JsonSerializable(typeof(Dictionary<string, string>))]
+[JsonSerializable(typeof(IDictionary<string, string>))]
 [JsonSourceGenerationOptions(
     WriteIndented = false,
     GenerationMode = JsonSourceGenerationMode.Serialization)]
diff --git a/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderTagHelper.cs b/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderTagHelper.cs
index bf27c73..347b8b0 100644
--- a/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderTagHelper.cs
+++ b/src/Ramstack.HtmxToolkit/TagHelpers/HtmxHeaderTagHelper.cs
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ public sealed class HtmxHeaderTagHelper : TagHelper
     /// Gets or sets the <c>hx-header</c> attribute values.
     /// </summary>
     [HtmlAttributeName(HeadersDictionaryName, DictionaryAttributePrefix = HeadersPrefix)]
-    public Dictionary<string, string> Headers { get; set; } = new();
+    public IDictionary<string, string> Headers { get; set; } = new Dictionary<string, string>();
 
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public override Task ProcessAsync(TagHelperContext context, TagHelperOutput output)
     {
         var headers = new HtmlString(
-            JsonSerializer.Serialize(Headers, HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.Default.DictionaryStringString));
+            JsonSerializer.Serialize(Headers, HtmxHeaderJsonSerializerContext.Default.IDictionaryStringString));
 
         output.Attributes.SetAttribute(
             new TagHelperAttribute("hx-headers", headers, HtmlAttributeValueStyle.SingleQuotes));