ASP.net MVC - Navigation and highlighting the “current” link

Question

When you create a new MVC project it creates a Site.master with the following markup:

    

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Answer 1

I Used this approach with a htmlhelper for the problem:

public static class HtmlHelpers
{
    public static MvcHtmlString MenuLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper,
                                            string linkText,
                                            string actionName,
                                            string controllerName
                                        )
    {

        string currentAction = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
        string currentController = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");

        if (actionName.Equals(currentAction, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) && controllerName.Equals(currentController, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
        {
            return htmlHelper.ActionLink(linkText, actionName, controllerName, null, new { @class = "active" });
        }

        return htmlHelper.ActionLink(linkText, actionName, controllerName);

    }
}

and for the view

@Html.MenuLink"Linktext", "action", "controller")