Question

In a Razor View Engine template, I want to do the following: I want to put some code between the double quotes of an html attribute. The trouble is that the piece of code I want to insert contains some double quotes itself.

<a href="Url.Action("Item", new { id = Model.Item.Id, page = page });">@page</a>

You can easily see how things turn horribly wrong 🙂 I know i can calculate the link in a variable and then use it, but I’d rather not:

@{ var action = Url.Action("Question", new { id = Model.Question.Id, page = page }); }                   
<a href="@action">@page</a>                                        

Answer 1

You don’t need to escape or anything using Razor. Razor is smart enough to know when quotes are within attributes because you’re escaping outside of html when you parse it.

<a href="@Url.Action("Item", 
       new { id = Model.Item.Id, page = page })">@page</a>

That code will work fine – Just make sure you have the @ symbol in front of the Url.Action call because if you don’t it won’t be parsed properly and I notice you don’t have it in your question.

Edit: removed ; as Url.Action is not a statement.