Embed Html.ActionLink in Javascript in Razor

Question

I know that it\'s possible to embed @Html in Javascript in MVC3, but I can\'t get the following to work and not sure if this is possible yet.

Using jQuery DataTable,

Answer 1

I think it's a simple as adding quotes around the link:

var result = '@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditPallet", new { id = 1 })';

This will generate the whole <a> tag. What you could do as well is just return the url:

var result  = '@Url.Action("EditPallet", new { id = 1 })';

and the embed it in an existing anchor using jQuery:

<!-- let's imagine this already exists -->
<a href="#" id="dynamicLink">Edit</a>

// result is ovbiously what the other function returns
$("#dynamicLink").attr("href", result);