Invalid anonymous type member declarator. Anonymous type members must be declared with a member assignment, simple name or member access

Question

I\'m trying to add additional attribute data-icon to my Action Link, but I\'m getting the error below:

Invalid anonymous type member

Answer 1

UPDATE: From Xander's comment above, use data_icon = "gear"

You can use an IDictionary in place of the anonymous object for HTML attributes:

@Html.ActionLink("Profile", "Details", "Profile", new { id = 11 }
    , new Dictionary
    {
        { "rel", "external" }, 
        { "id", "btnProfile" },
        { "data-icon", "gear" },
    })

See this overload: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd504988.aspx

The helper you are using is just a convenient method of creating the dictionary, but behind the scenes the dictionary is created anyway.