Question

I used to put the class of css in the action link like this:

<%: Html.ActionLink("Us", "Us", "Por", new { @class = "contactus" })%>

The purpose that I put the class is for the pop up of color box.
Now I have an action in my controller that return the result to the view like this :

return Redirect(@"~/Test/TestFirst?msg=Please complete all the information.");

Question : How can I add class = “contactus” to the return of my action ?

Thanks in advanced.

Answer 1

The Controller cannot and should not add css classes, this is the views responsibility. And it looks like you are stuffing a message in the query string, but it probably should be in the TempData

Controller:

TempData["msg"] = "Please complete all the information";
return Redirect(@"~/Test/TestFirst");

View:

@if(TempData["msg"] != null)
{
  <div class="myclass">@TempData["msg"]</div>
}

notice that TempData will survive a redirect.