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Linking text to another page in ASP.NET MVC

I want to redirect to another view in my application when user clicks to the hyperlinked text. I wrote the code like this:

<p class="mb-0">
    <a href="~/Views/Account/ApprovalValidation.cshtml">I want to check approval</a>
</p>

But it's not opening the page and returns an error saying that view cannot found that location.

Can anyone show me what I did wrong?

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Solution

  • The Url.Action() method is the most convenient way of generating outgoing links:

    <p class="mb-0">
    <a href="@Url.Action("ApprovalValidation", "Account")">I want to check approval</a>
</p>

    Also you can use href="/Account/ApprovalValidation" or href="~/Account/ApprovalValidation". Starting from MVC 4, Razor automatically detects attributes that begin with ~/ and automatically inserts the @Href or @Url call for you.

    See the following article for additional information: Tilde notation maps to the original URLs by using IIS URL rewrite in ASP.NET Web Pages Razor V3