Question

The page currently displayed in my browser is: http://localhost:19255/Object/Browse/1.

A link on this page is created with: @Html.ActionLink("...", "Browse", "Object")

But the generated link is actually: /Object/Browse/1

My understanding of what’s happening is that MVC sees my route has an {id} portion, which I did not supply. So it went ahead and included the {id} portion from the current page.

Fair enough, but how do I create a link without it? I tried null, and new { id = null } but neither worked.

Answer 1

While neither of the following work:

@Html.ActionLink("...", "Browse", "Object", null)              // Has no effect
@Html.ActionLink("...", "Browse", "Object", new { id = null }) // Error

The following solves the issue:

@Html.ActionLink("...", "Browse", "Object", new { id = "" })   // No ID is passed