Question

I am using listview and in listview in Item Template, i have anchor tag with href.

<a class="linkbutton" href='<%# string.Format("Movie/Hindi-Movie/{0}/{1}",Eval("MovieId"),Eval("MovieName")) %>'><%#Eval("MovieName")%></a>

and in Global file

i have

routes.MapPageRoute("HindiAboutMovie", "Movie/Hindi-Movie/{MovieId}/{MovieName}", "~/Bollywood/AboutMovie.aspx");

This works fine.
but in MovieName i have space between words which makes the url ugly by placing ‘%’ in blank space.

like

http://localhost:5703/Movie/Hindi-Movie/43/Kucch%20Luv%20Jaisaa

where i am trying to make

http://localhost:5703/Movie/Hindi-Movie/43/Kucch-Luv-Jaisaa

How to handle this html side in string.Format?

Please guide me.

Answer 1

I tried this approach.

In Html i wrote

<a class="linkbutton" href='<%# string.Format("Movie/Bollywood-Movie/{0}/{1}",Eval("MovieId"),GetMovieName(Eval("MovieName"))) %>'>

and in code behind i wrote a method.

public string GetMovieName(object obj)
    {
        string moviename = Convert.ToString(obj);
        string newmoviename= moviename.Replace(" ", "-");
        return newmoviename;
    }

This did solve my issue at the moment. 🙂