Attach an image to ActionLink in MVC 4

Question

I use ActionLink with id in an MVC 4 application and evaluate the actionLink id as an image in css, but on earth I am doing wrong. does not work! here is my code

 <div class="logo_container">
            @Html.ActionLink(" ", "Index", "Home", null, new { id = "_Logo" })
 </div>

CSS

.logo_container {
width:339px;
height:116px; 
}

#_Logo {
background-image: url("../Images/logo.png");
 width:339px;
height:116px;
background-color:green;
}

Answer 1

This is from my application. Works fine:

.logo{
background:no-repeat url(/Content/photo/png/sprite.png) 0 0;
height:15px;
width:20px;
overflow:hidden;
float:left;
border:none;
display:inline;
}

<a href="@Url.Action("Action", "Controller")" class="logo"></a>

Answer 2

The best way to do both for Html.ActionLink and for Ajax.ActionLink below

@Html.Raw(@Html.ActionLink("[replacetext]", "Index", "Home").ToHtmlString().Replace("[replacetext]", "<img src=\"/Content/img/logo.png\" ... />"))


@Html.Raw(@Ajax.ActionLink("[replacetext]", "Index", "Home", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId="dvTest"}).ToHtmlString().Replace("[replacetext]", "<img src=\"/Contents/img/logo.png\" … />"))

In addition, you want to provide a class and style so that you can do the following

@Html.Raw(@Ajax.ActionLink("[replacetext]", "Index", "Home", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId="dvTest"}).ToHtmlString().Replace("[replacetext]", "<img src=\"/Contents/img/logo.png\" style=\"width:10%\" … />"))

Answer 3

HtmlHelper:

    namespace Order.Web.UI.Infrastructure
{
    public static class CustomHelpers
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString ImageActionLink(this HtmlHelper html, string imageSource, string url)
        {
            string imageActionLink = string.Format("<a href=\"{0},\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"{1}\" /></a>",url,imageSource);

            return new MvcHtmlString(imageActionLink);
        }
    }
}

view.cshtml:

@using OrderPad2.Web.UI.Infrastructure
.
.
.
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@Html.ImageActionLink(@app.Icon,@app.AppStoreLink) 

Answer 4

:

new { id = "_logo"}

new { @id = "_logo"} 

Without @before, idit treats it as a parameter instead of an attribute of the html element.

Without @ he will produce:

www.site.com/home/index/_logo

With @ he will produce:

www.site.com/home

and the item will be:

<a id="_logo" href=""></a>