How can I return the current action in an ASP.NET MVC view?

Question

I wanted to set a CSS class in my master page, which depends on the current controller and action. I can get to the current controller via ViewContext.Controller.GetTy

Answer 1

I vote for this 2:

string currentActionName = ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

and

string currentViewName = ((WebFormView)ViewContext.View).ViewPath;

You can retrive both physical name of current view and action that triggered it. It can be usefull in partial *.acmx pages to determine host container.