Including an anchor tag in an ASP.NET MVC Html.ActionLink

🔗 Including an anchor tag in an ASP.NET MVC Html.ActionLink

So, you want to create a link in ASP.NET MVC that includes an anchor tag. This means that you want to direct the user to a specific section of a page when they click on the link. Easy peasy!

🧩 The Problem You have already set up your routing and have a working ActionLink that generates a URL correctly, like this: /category/subcategory/1. However, you're struggling to figure out how to add the #section12 part to the end of the URL.

🔍 The Solution To add the anchor tag to your ActionLink, you can pass it as a route value. Let me show you how:

First, modify your ActionLink syntax to include an anonymous object for the route values:

<%=Html.ActionLink<CategoryController>(x => x.Subcategory(parent.ID), child.Name, new { section = "section12" }) %>

In the above code, we added new { section = "section12" } as the third argument. Here, section is the name of the route value, and "section12" is the value you want to pass.

Now, in your controller method, update the signature to include the new route value:

public ActionResult Subcategory(int categoryID, string section)
{
   //return itemList

   return View(itemList);
}

Make sure to add string section as a parameter.

Finally, in your View, you can access the section value and construct the URL with the anchor tag:

<a href="/category/subcategory/1#<%=section %>">Title for a section on the page</a>

Here, we added <%=section %> to the URL to dynamically insert the route value section.

🎉 That's it! Now when you generate the ActionLink, it should create a URL like /category/subcategory/1#section12, directing the user to the specified section of the page.

💡 Pro Tip: You can have multiple route values by adding more keys and values to the anonymous object in the ActionLink.

📣 Call-To-Action Now that you know how to include an anchor tag in an ASP.NET MVC Html.ActionLink, go ahead and try it out in your project! If you found this guide helpful, share it with your developer friends so they can benefit too. And don't hesitate to leave a comment if you have any questions or need further assistance. Happy coding! 🚀💻