Asp.Net Mvc Url.Action in external js file?

Question

In external js file, I cant use

url = \"@Url.Action(\"Action\", \"Controller\")\" 
//url output : @Url.Action(\"Action\", \"Controller\")
//I get IllegalPat         


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is the most elegant solution, but what I did was differentiating between registers and the real implementation in the external scripts, so that:

... include all the external scripts I need

$(document).ready(function(){

    //get all the information you need from your MVC context 
    //before going out of context and into the scripts
    var url = '@Url.Action("Action", "Controller")'; 


     RegisterMyFunction(url, other parameters ..);
     RegisterAnotherFunction(url, others...);
}

So that in my views I only had the register functions and the scripts contained the special values as a parameter to do whatever I wanted.

Hope it helps,