DotNetDevDude - ASP.NET MVC–ActionLink Button

Monday, November 07, 2011

ASP.NET MVC provides a lot of HTML Helpers that allow you to more easily with less code create your views. Typically navigation in MVC is done using the ActionLink HTML Helper that allows you easily generate an html anchor tag that will redirect to a specified controller and action. I found cases where I wanted my navigation to be done via a button rather than a link so I created my own HTML Helper to make this easier.

Code:

 using System.Web.Routing;  
  
namespace System.Web.Mvc.Html {  
  
    public static class ActionLinkButtonHelper {  
          
        public static MvcHtmlString ActionLinkButton(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string buttonText, string actionName, string controllerName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues) {  
            string href = UrlHelper.GenerateUrl("default", actionName, controllerName, routeValues, RouteTable.Routes, htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext, false);  
            string buttonHtml = string.Format("<input type=\"button\" title=\"{0}\" value=\"{0}\" onclick=\"location.href='{1}'\" class=\"button\" />",buttonText,href);  
            return new MvcHtmlString(buttonHtml);  
        }  
    }  
} 

Example Usage:

 @Html.ActionLinkButton("Add", "AddSiteFromDistrict", "SiteMaintenance", new RouteValueDictionary(new { districtID = @Model.DistrictID })) 

Code | HTML Helpers | MVC | MVC3

posted on Monday, November 07, 2011 8:53:15 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Friday, January 06, 2012 6:25:03 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thank you! This is great!

ShaulB

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