Question

Is there a way to populate an anchor tag’s href value in the View using a ViewBag value? What I want to be able to do is something like this:

View:

<a href="<%= ViewBag.MyURL %>" title="My URL">"<%= ViewBag.MyURL %>"</a>

Controller:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.MyURL = "http://www.Google.com";
        return View();
    }

How do I go about doing this correctly?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here was the way this worked to dynamically update a href anchor tag using MVC and Razor:

Controller (this could also be set in a code block within the View if needed as well):

ViewBag.MyURL = "http://www.Google.com";

View:

<a href="@Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))" title="@Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))"> @Html.Raw(Html.AttributeEncode(ViewBag.MyURL))</a>