Is there a way to create an ActionLink with HTML 5 Data- attributes?

Question

HTML5 allows the use of custom attributes prefixed with the phrase \"data-\" which pass validation without the use of a custom DTD (more info). In Asp.Net MVC, is there any

Answer 1

Yes, there is an overload for ActionLink method which takes an IDictionary instead of an anonymous object.

<%=Html.ActionLink("text", "Index", "Home", null /*routeValues*/, 
    new Dictionary { 
       { "data-customattribute", "value" }, 
       { "data-another", "another-value" } 
    })%>

Outputs :

text