Passing model data in an Html Content return from the controller

Question

I recently received a request from a client to create a method that would allow them to directly email a user from an admin account from the contents of a completed form.

Controller:
[HttpGet]
     public ActionResult ThisView() {
         thisModel model = new thisModel();
    emailAddress = model.EmailAddress

         return Content('<a href="mailto:"model.emailAddress"', "text/html")
        }
View:

 <div class="form-group">
            <div class="col-sm-2  raw-value"><span class="WebsiteContent"  data-ControlID="divPOC_Email" data-Component="11"></span></div>
            <div class="col-sm-5">
                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EmailAddress, new { @class = "form-control", @placeholder = "sample@email.com", maxlength = 100 })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.EmailAddress)
            </div>
            <div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-2 col-xs-12 field-validation-error userErrorMessage hidden" data-valmsg="user">Required</div>
        </div>

The data is being retrieved from a user input, and returned to an administrator view of the completed form. The request is to pass the email address as a clickable link that will allow them to email the user directly from the form. Is it possible to pass the model data directly into the view as a raw HTML String containing the existing data?

Answer 1

Your question extremely unclear. It looks like you might be using a child action here, but even that doesn't really make sense.

If you want to display the value on your model as a link, you need only use Html.DisplayFor:

@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.EmailAddress)

The default display template for an email address is to wrap it in a link. This assumes, of course that you're decorated your EmailAddress property with [EmailAddress] and/or [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)].