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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:29:39+00:00

Whenever I use Html.ActionLink it always Html encodes my display string. For instance I

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Whenever I use Html.ActionLink it always Html encodes my display string. For instance I want my link to look like this:

<a href='/posts/422/My-Post-Title-Here'>More&hellip;</a>

it outputs like this: More&hellip;

&hellip is ‘…’ incase you were wondering.

However the actionlink outputs the actual text ‘&hellip;’ as the link text. I have the same problem with if I want to output this:

<a href='/posts/422/My-Post-Title-Here'><em>My-Post-Title-Here</em></a>

I wind up with: <em>My-Post-Title-Here</em>

Any idea how to do this?

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  1. It looks like ActionLink always uses calls HttpUtility.Encode on the link text. You could use UrlHelper to generate the href and build the anchor tag yourself.

    <a href='@Url.Action('Posts', ...)'>More&hellip;</a>

    Alternatively you can ‘decode’ the string you pass to ActionLink. Constructing the link in HTML seems to be slightly more readable (to me) – especially in Razor. Below is the equivalent for comparison.

    @Html.ActionLink(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode('More&hellip;'), 'Posts', ...)
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