RedirectToAction() with tab-id

Question

I have a web application in ASP.NET MVC and in there i have a jqueryUI tab with forms in. And when i submit i want to return to the open tab.

With me RedirectToAction() i create the url

www.foo.com/CV/edit/9

But i want to be able to generate

www.foo.com/CV/edit/9#tab-2

I tried with RedirectToAction("edit/"+id+"#tab-2"), but that generates:

www.foo.com/CV/edit/9%23tab-2

any1 knows the answer?

Answer 1

Create the URL, then append #tab-2 to it. Return a RedirectResult to redirect to the created URL:

return new RedirectResult(Url.Action("edit", new { id }) + "#tab-2");

Answer 2

You can't redirect to a hashed URL because they aren't a physical URL. The hash is used for internal page anchoring. You'd be best off using a URL parameter like &tab=2