Question

I need to determine if I’m on a particular view. My use case is that I’d like to decorate navigation elements with an “on” class for the current view. Is there a built in way of doing this?

Answer 1

Here what i am using. I think this is actually generated by the MVC project template in VS:

public static bool IsCurrentAction(this HtmlHelper helper, string actionName, string controllerName)
    {
        string currentControllerName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
        string currentActionName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"];

        if (currentControllerName.Equals(controllerName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) && currentActionName.Equals(actionName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
            return true;

        return false;
    }