Question

I have something like in MVC (I am using MVC c# using razor):

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditProject", new { id = item.ProjectID}) 

produces something like when I look at the source code:

<a href="/iDVI/Project/EditProject/535">Edit</a>

Note how 535 was the result of having item.ProjectID.
This is fine. What I like to do though is to put an id for this edit link. Something like:

<a href="/iDVI/Project/EditProject/535" id="Projectid">Edit</a>

How do I do this. I know using new{id=…} will create a id but and id is already used for what I intially needed to do.

I need to give an id to the link now?

Answer 1

You have to look at the signature of the method when you are using it.
When you wrote:

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditProject", new { id = item.ProjectID}) 

you used the following overload:

HtmlHelper.ActionLink(string linkText, string ActionName, object
routeValues)

So this is why you were getting your item.ProjectID as a part of the url. It is a routeValue in this case.

The overload that you are looking for is probably this one:

HtmlHelper.ActionLink(string linkText, string ActionName, object
routeValues, object htmlAttributes)

Using this overload you specify that you want to use your variable item.ProjectID as a part of url as well as an attribute of the link:

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditProject", new { id = item.ProjectID}, new { id = item.ProjectID })

If you actually want to spell out the name of the variable, you would write:

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditProject", new { id = item.ProjectID}, new { id = @"Projectid" })

This gives you the desired output.