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In my view I have a hidden filed which has a UserID. This user id is generated upon an action (so this will not be know prior)

Once this hidden field has a value, I would like to use that value as an actionlink routevalue. Can I do it with a jquery selector.

My hidden field is

<input id="NewUserID" type="hidden" value="80">

My ajax.ActionLink is

@Ajax.ActionLink("Edit", "EditUser", "User", new { UserID = "$('#GetNewPatientID').val()" },
        new AjaxOptions
        {
            OnSuccess = "ShowEditUserForm",
            UpdateTargetId = "EditUserDetails",
            InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
            HttpMethod = "Get"
        }, new { @class = "button", id = "EditUserButton" }) 

Any idea if this is possible?

Answer 1

When generating the action link on the server you could put some special placeholder for the UserID route value:

@Ajax.ActionLink(
    "Edit", 
    "EditUser", 
    "User",    
    new { 
        UserID = "__userid__" 
    },
    new AjaxOptions {
        OnSuccess = "ShowEditUserForm",
        UpdateTargetId = "EditUserDetails",
        InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
        HttpMethod = "Get"
    }, 
    new { 
        @class = "button", 
        id = "EditUserButton" 
    }
) 

and then when you assign a value to the hidden field in javascript you could update the action link href as well:

$('#EditUserButton').attr('href', function() {
    return this.href.replace('__userid__', $('#NewUserID').val());
});