How do I bypass the HTML encoding when using Html.ActionLink in Mvc?

Question

Whenever I use Html.ActionLink it always Html encodes my display string. For instance I want my link to look like this:

Answer 1

It looks like ActionLink always uses calls HttpUtility.Encode on the link text. You could use UrlHelper to generate the href and build the anchor tag yourself.

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Alternatively you can "decode" the string you pass to ActionLink. Constructing the link in HTML seems to be slightly more readable (to me) - especially in Razor. Below is the equivalent for comparison.

@Html.ActionLink(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("More…"), "Posts", ...)