Raw ActionLink linkText

Question

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

Answer 1

If you want to create a custom action link that uses T4MVC library, You can write the below code:

    public static System.Web.IHtmlString DtxActionLink(
        this System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper html, string linkText,
        System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult actionResult = null,
        object htmlAttributes = null)
    {
        System.Web.Mvc.IT4MVCActionResult oT4MVCActionResult =
            actionResult as System.Web.Mvc.IT4MVCActionResult;

        if (oT4MVCActionResult == null)
        {
            return (null);
        }

        System.Web.Mvc.UrlHelper oUrlHelper =
            new System.Web.Mvc.UrlHelper(html.ViewContext.RequestContext);

        System.Web.Mvc.TagBuilder oTagBuilder =
            new System.Web.Mvc.TagBuilder("a");

        oTagBuilder.InnerHtml = linkText;

        oTagBuilder.AddCssClass("btn btn-default");

        oTagBuilder.Attributes["href"] = oUrlHelper.Action
            (oT4MVCActionResult.Action,
            oT4MVCActionResult.Controller,
            oT4MVCActionResult.RouteValueDictionary);

        oTagBuilder.MergeAttributes
            (new System.Web.Routing.RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));

        return (html.Raw(oTagBuilder.ToString()));
    }