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  JackieMay

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  Html.Actionlink

  Dec 21, 2012 02:16 AM|LINK

  I'm working with MVC4 Razor and converting a site that was pure html and trying to figure out how to get the quivilant via the @Html.ActionLink

  this is one of the links in my html markup
  <a href="/bots.html"><span><span>Learn More</span></span></a>

  if I use @Html.ActionLink("Learn More", "Bots", "Home") I Get
  <a href="/Home/Bots">Learn More</a>

  I need it to be
  <a href="/Home/Bots"><span><span>Learn More</span></span></a>

  I can hard code <a href="/Home/Bots"><span><span>Learn More</span></span></a> into the page but I would like to use the actionlink as its easier to maintain

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  CPrakash82

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  Re: Html.Actionlink

  Dec 21, 2012 02:39 AM|LINK

  Html.ActionLink

  generates an

  <a href=".."></a>

  tag, if you wan to generate anchor tag along with child node, its better you use Url.Action

  <a href="@Url.Action("Bots", "Home")"><span><span>Learn More</span></span></a>

   

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  JackieMay

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  Re: Html.Actionlink

  Dec 21, 2012 02:52 AM|LINK

  Thankyou that solved more than one issue

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  quantt

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  Re: Html.Actionlink

  Dec 21, 2012 02:54 AM|LINK

  Hi JackieMay,

  You will be have 2 options :

  - Not custom actionlink

  <a href="@Url.Action("Bots","Home")"><span><span>Learn More</span></span></a>

  -Custom ActionLink

  public static class MyHtmlExtensions {
      public static MvcHtmlString MyActionLink(this HtmlHelper html, string action, string controller,string text) {
           var url = UrlHelper.GenerateContentUrl("~/" + controller + "/" + action);
           var myBuilder= new TagBuilder("a");
           myBuilder.Attributes.Add("href", url);
           myBuilder.InnerHtml=string.Format("<span><span>{0}</span></span>",text);
           return new MvcHtmlString(myBuilder.ToString());
      }
  }

  
  
  

  Regards,
  Quan Truong
  
  Please, click 'Mark as answer' if you think my answer really help you. Thanks
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  JackieMay

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  Re: Html.Actionlink

  Dec 21, 2012 03:03 AM|LINK

  ok I'm liking this second option but where would you put the class ? under models ? or under the root of the Project ? I'm very new to the whole asp.net thing and this started out as a webforms project but I'm liking the razor far better