Question

I have an HTML Action Link as

 <div>@Html.ActionLink("New Requests>", "GetNewRequests", "Resource", null, new { @class = "spbutton" })</div>

Which displays on a page as a link “New Requests >” when clicked it shows a grid of the requests.

I now need this link to be “New Requests (x)>” ex( New Requests(4)) where x is the count of the number of new requests, also equal to the number of rows in a grid.

I am not sure how to dynamically add the text the Html.ActionLink call.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Add a property to your view model containing this information. Have the controller action populate it. And then it’s trivial:

<div>
    @Html.ActionLink(
        "New Requests (" + Model.TotalRequestsCount + ")>", 
        "GetNewRequests", 
        "Resource", 
        null, 
        new { @class = "spbutton" }
    )
</div>