Question

I had a doubt which is the following:

When I use the following code:

@(Html.ActionLink("Click Me", "ACTION", new {QueryName = ViewBag.QueryName}))

I will get an HTML output like this:
<a href=”http://localhost/ControllerName/ACTION?QueryName=098″&gt; Click Me </a>

Ok, but what if I want to have the following as an HTML output?

<span > I want just the “href” part of the action link http://localhost/ControllerName/ACTION?QueryName=098 , without the “a” tag </span>

Do I have to write an extension for it or do I have some preexistent provision to do it?

I hope I was clear enough.

Thanks

UPDATE

So far I wrote an extension, which is clearly not the best way to do it, as you can see below, but I needed it:

public static class ActionURLPathExtension
{
    public static MvcHtmlString ActionURLPath(this HtmlHelper helper ,  string ActionName, string ControllerName, object RouteValues)
    {
        string resultURL=LinkExtensions.ActionLink(helper," ",ActionName,ControllerName, RouteValues, new object()).ToHtmlString();
        resultURL= resultURL.Replace("</a>","") .Replace("<a href=\"","") .Replace("\">","").Trim() ;

        return MvcHtmlString.Create(helper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Server.UrlDecode(resultURL));
    }
}

In the HTML I used it like this:

<span>Now you can paste this URL in your address bar : @(Html.ActionURLPath("CarregarFiltros", "Filtros", new { QueryId = "%0" , noCache = new Random().Next(0,1989)  }))</span>

Answer 1

You can use Url.Action, like so:

@Url.Action("Action", new { QueryName = ViewBag.QueryName })

or if you need the fully qualified URL:

@Url.Action("Action", "Controller", new { QueryName = ViewBag.QueryName }, "http")