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Html.ActionLink bypass encoding for route values

I am trying to bypass the route value encoding that Html.ActionLink does, when processed on Server. For example I Have following ActionLink

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "_SoftwareRequestEdit", "SoftwareRequest", new {id = "#= Id #"}, null)

and it generates a link like this

<a href="/Admin/SoftwareRequest/_SoftwareRequestEdit/%23%3d%20Id%20%23">Edit</a>

but I wan't to send this to the browser instead

<a href="/Admin/SoftwareRequest/_SoftwareRequestEdit/#= Id #">Edit</a>

The "#= Id #" route value has to be sent to the browser as it is, because it is processed by a front end framework Kendo UI Web, which replaces the expression "#= Id #" by a corresponding integer value.

Solution

  • This is quite messy... However, if you need to do it, you could always build the tag manually.

    <a href="@(Url.Action("Edit", "_SoftwareRequestEdit", "SoftwareRequest"))/#= ID #">Edit</a>

    Please note, I have not tested this code...

    Edit: It may in fact give you what you need, because most browsers will url encode whatever is in the "a" tag anyway as spaces are not a valid url character: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp