Question

In the same way that I can create an ActionLink in ASP.NET MVC that points to an action in a controller (e.g. – @Html.ActionLink("MyDisplayText", "MyAction", "MyController")), I would like to be able to create a hyperlink with an explicitly-defined, external url.

What I’m looking for is some code like @Html.HyperLink("stackoverflow", "http://www.stackoverflow.com/") that generates this HTML: <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/">stackoverflow</a>

If this isn’t possible, I can always just write the HTML by hand.

(This is my first stackoverflow question. How exciting.)

Answer 1

A custom helper could look like this:

namespace System.Web.Mvc {
    public static class HtmlHelperExtensions {
        public static MvcHtmlString Hyperlink(this HtmlHelper helper, string url, string linkText) {
            return MvcHtmlString.Create(String.Format("<a href='{0}'>{1}</a>", url, linkText));
        }
    }
}

May this be the first of many custom HtmlHelpers you use!