ASP.NET MVC : AJAX ActionLink- Target an HTML attribute

Question

I have an Ajax actionlink that requests a string in the controller method. I want to insert that string into an attribute of a hyperlink. HOw do I specify the attribute fiel

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly what you mean but you can provide a set of HTML attributes some versions of the ActionLink extension.

Ajax.ActionLink( string linkText,
                 string action,
                 object routeValues,
                 AjaxOptions ajaxOptions,
                 object htmlAttributes )

Example:

<%= Ajax.ActionLink( "add",
                     "AddThing",
                     new { id = ViewData.Model.ID },
                     new AjaxOptions { Confirm = "Are you sure?",
                                       UpdateTargetId = "thingList"
                                     },
                     new { title = "Add a thing to the database." } ); %>