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I want to put a button as the text of an @ActionLink() but I can't because it HTML-escapes my string... I found the @Html.Raw() mechanism and have tried the @ActionLink().ToHtmlString() but can't figure out how to put it together... I found an article that describes building an extension for a similar purpose but it's eeky to go to that much trouble... there must be an easy way? You could write a helper: public static class HtmlExtensions { public static IHtmlString MyActionLink( this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string linkText, string action, string controller, object routeValues, object

In an ASP.NET MVC view I'd like to include a link of the form: <a href="blah">Link text <span>with further descriptive text</span></a> Trying to include the <span> element in the linkText field of a call to Html.ActionLink() ends up with it being encoded (as would be expected). Are there any recommended ways of achieving this? You could use Url.Action to build the link for you: <a href="<% =Url.Action("Action", "Controller")%>">link text <span>with further blablah</span></a> or use Html.BuildUrlFromExpression: <a href="<% =Html.BuildUrlFromExpression<Controller>(c => c.Action()) %>">text <span

Is it possible to use HTML tags in the linkText of Html.ActionLink? For instance, if I wanted to bold part of the text of a link I would try something similar to this: <%= Html.ActionLink("Some <b>bold</b> text", "Index")%> but that just outputs Some <b>bold</b> text I know I could do this by using an anchor tag and setting the URL with Url.Action, but I just wanted to know if this was possible. No; it's not possible. You need to manually write an <a> tag. The Html.ActionLink helper HTML encodes the link text which prevents you from embedding HTML in the link text. For this same reason you

I'm trying to implement a simple ActionLink that will delete records using ASP.NET MVC. This is what I have so far: <%= Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id = item.storyId, onclick = "return confirm('Are you sure?');" })%> However, it doesn't show the confirm box. Clearly I'm missing something or I have incorrectly built the link. Can anyone help? Don't confuse routeValues with htmlAttributes . You probably want this overload : <%= Html.ActionLink( "Delete", "Delete", new { id = item.storyId }, new { onclick = "return confirm('Are you sure you wish to delete this article?');" }) %>

The very famous ActionLink : <%: Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index")%> Now, this link is in my Details view. The Index view is a search page. The URL of that looks like this: http://localhost:50152/2011-2012/Instelling/Details/76?gemeente=Dendermonde&postcode=92**&gebruikerscode=VVKSO114421&dossiernr=114421%20&organisatie=CLB As you can see, quite the amount of parameters. Obviously I want to keep all these parameters when I return to the Index page, so I need to add them in the ActionLink . Now, I'm tired of doing that manually, it's ok for 1, but not for 6. This should go a lot easier.

I have a method that returns an array (string[]) and I'm trying to pass this array of strings into an Action Link so that it will create a query string similar to: /Controller/Action?str=val1&str=val2&str=val3...etc But when I pass new { str = GetStringArray() } I get the following url: /Controller/Action?str=System.String%5B%5D So basically it's taking my string[] and running .ToString() on it to get the value. Any ideas? Thanks! Try creating a RouteValueDictionary holding your values. You'll have to give each entry a different key. <% var rv = new RouteValueDictionary(); var strings =

WORKS <a href="@Url.Action("edit", "markets", new { id = 1 })" data-rel="dialog" data-transition="pop" data-icon="gear" class="ui-btn-right">Edit</a> DOES NOT WORK - WHY? @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "edit", "markets", new { id = 1 }, new {@class="ui-btn-right", data-icon="gear"}) It seems you can't pass something like data-icon="gear" into htmlAttributes? Suggestions? The problem is that your anonymous object property data-icon has an invalid name. C# properties cannot have dashes in their names. There are two ways you can get around that: Use an underscore instead of dash (MVC will automatically