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atconway
atconway

Reputation: 21304

How to dynamically populate anchor tag in MVC View using ViewData value?

Is there a way to populate an anchor tag's href value in the View using a ViewBag value? What I want to be able to do is something like this:

View:

<a href="<%= ViewBag.MyURL %>" title="My URL">"<%= ViewBag.MyURL %>"</a>

Controller:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.MyURL = "http://www.Google.com";
        return View();
    }

How do I go about doing this correctly?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6725

Answers (2)

atconway
atconway

Reputation: 21304

Here was the way this worked to dynamically update a href anchor tag using MVC and Razor:

Controller (this could also be set in a code block within the View if needed as well):

ViewBag.MyURL = "http://www.Google.com";

View:

<a href="@Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))" title="@Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))"> @Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))</a>

Upvotes: 5

CrazyWebDeveloper
CrazyWebDeveloper

Reputation: 378

If you have the following in the controller:

ViewBag.myURL = "http://www.my-url.com";

Then in the view you have:

@Html.Raw("<a href=\"" + ViewBag.MyURL + "\" title=\"" + ViewBag.MyURL + "\">" + ViewBag.MyURL + "</a>")

Html.Action helper is typically used when posting to another controller and/or action within the same web site. Html.Raw is good for building links to external websites.

Upvotes: 2

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