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amir moradifard
amir moradifard

Reputation: 353

@Html.Action is not calling the action inside the controller

I am newbie in MVC.

In Razor I need to call a method inside a controller but its not working for me.

My Razor code is as below:

@helper SubmitCommnet()
{
    @Html.Action("Post2", "PostShow", new { id = 1111 });

}

and my Controller is as follow:

public class PostShowController : SurfaceController
{      
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return null;
    }

    public ActionResult Post2(int id)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

Any ideas why it not calling the Post2 method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1618

Answers (2)

Brad Christie
Brad Christie

Reputation: 101604

You're using Html.ActionLink like you would Url.Action. Remember you need to specify the link text, too. Something tells me you want the following method:

public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(
    this HtmlHelper htmlHelper,
    string linkText,
    string actionName,
    string controllerName,
    Object routeValues,
    Object htmlAttributes
)

msdn link

Then you can call it using:

@Html.ActionLink("Click Me", "Post2", "PostShow", new { id = 1111 }, null)

Unfortunately if you need to provide the action, controller & route arguments, you need the prototype with htmlAttributes (however, you can simply pass null).

Upvotes: 2

Felipe Oriani
Felipe Oriani

Reputation: 38598

With Razor, you have to use a Html.ActionLink to do this, which generates a hyperlink tag from html, or use the hyperlink tag directly, for sample:

@Html.ActionLink("Post", // <-- Text for UI 
                "Post2",   // <-- ActionMethod
                "PostShow",  // <-- Controller Name.
                new { id = 1111 }, // <-- Route arguments.
                null  // <-- htmlArguments .. which are none. You need this value
                      //     otherwise you call the WRONG method ...
                      //     (refer to comments, below).
                )

Upvotes: 2

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