How can I do something similar to Html.ActionLink() except place the generated link around an Image instead of just spitting out the link?
How can I do something similar to Html.ActionLink() except place the generated link around an Image instead of just spitting out the link?
Razor (View Engine):
<a href="@Url.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName")">
<img src="@Url.Content("~/Content/img/imgname.jpg")" />
</a>
ASPX (View Engine):
<a href="<%= Url.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName") %>">
<img src="<%= Url.Content("~/Content/img/imgname.jpg") %>" />
</a>
Obviously, if you do this more than once, write a helper for it. And fill in the other attributes of img/a. But this should give you the general idea.
Try something like this:
public static string ActionLinkWithImage(this HtmlHelper html, string imgSrc, string actionName)
{
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(html.ViewContext.RequestContext);
string imgUrl = urlHelper.Content(imgSrc);
TagBuilder imgTagBuilder = new TagBuilder("img");
imgTagBuilder.MergeAttribute("src", imgUrl);
string img = imgTagBuilder.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);
string url = UrlHelper.Action(actionName);
TagBuilder tagBuilder = new TagBuilder("a") {
InnerHtml = img
};
tagBuilder.MergeAttribute("href", url);
return tagBuilder.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
}
Hope this helps
You can create htmlhelper which can return image with link... As parameters you will pass to htmlhelper values like image path and link and in htmlhelper you will use StringBuilder to format html of that linked image properly...
cheers