How to render plain HTML links in Asp.Net MVC loop?

Question

I would like to render a list of HTML links in ASP.NET MVC. Note that the links are absolute and external to the website being designed. The following code

Answer 1

You are not missing anything but good approach is to create extender method on HtmlHelper:

public static class HtmlHelpers
    {

        public static string SimpleLink(this HtmlHelper html, string url, string text)
        {
            return String.Format("{1}", url, text);
        }

    }

then you can use it like this:

        
            <%= Html.Encode(item.Id) %>
        
        
            <%= Html.SimpleLink(item.Url,item.Text) %>
        
    

[edit] I forgot to add. In order to use this HtmlHelper extender throughout application you need to add the following in the web config file: