Question

I’m a newcomer to MVC (having inherited a razor MVC web site).

I’m trying to get an About Us page to work with a tab style – buttons basically, to flick the content.

I added the following constructor and property …

public class AboutModel
{
    public AboutModel(string selectedAboutTab)
    {
        SelectedAboutTab = selectedAboutTab;
    }
    private string _selectedAboutTab;
    public string SelectedAboutTab
    {
        get { return _selectedAboutTab ?? "about"; }
        set
        {
            _selectedAboutTab = value;
        }
    }

and then hoped to use HTML like this to change the tab …

    <a href="/About?selectedAboutTab=directors">directors</a>

But it doesn’t seem to be passing anything to the Constructor.

I think the problem is in the Home Controller … which is on the Home Page – that kicks off the AboutModel in the first place … but I was thinking once I’d navigated from the ‘Home Page’ to the ‘About Us’ it’s job would be done! But it actually creates a new Model every time I click on an About ‘tab’ within the ‘About Us’ page.

This is the bit of code on the Home Controller.

    public virtual ActionResult About()
    {
        ViewBag.CurrentPage = MenuPages.About;
        return View(new AboutModel("about"));
    }

Sorry for my clear lack of MVC knowledge! but could someone please tell me the easiest way I can get the SelectedAboutTab property populating?

Thanks

Answer 1

I just needed to add the selectedAboutTab to the Home Controller …

    public virtual ActionResult About(string selectedAboutTab)
    {
        ViewBag.CurrentPage = MenuPages.About;
        return View(new AboutModel(selectedAboutTab));
    }