Ajax.ActionLink creating unwanted link

Question

In my second navigation bar, I have many Ajax links which I created like this:

<li><a href=@Ajax.ActionLink("AVPartial", "SecurityProfiles",new AjaxOptions{UpdateTargetId = "SPContainer"})><span>Antivirus</span></a></li>

The problem is when clicking these links I get the following error:

A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (<).

And the link i am redirected to is : http://localhost:8680/SecurityProfiles/%3Ca as the %3Ca is a inferior character (<).

Can anyway explain why is this happening and how to fix it ?

Answer 1

why include <a> tag?

ActionLink itself creates the tag

<li>
  @Ajax.ActionLink("Antivirus", "SecurityProfiles",new AjaxOptions{UpdateTargetId = "SPContainer"})>
</li>

EDIT:

First argument to @Ajax.ActionLink() is Text to display