Using the 'Title' tag in an ActionLink in MVC2

Question

In an article titled Inegrating jQueryUI with MVC is this code snippet:

     <li><%= Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", 
                  new { title="Home Page" }, null)%></li>

I think the article pre-dates MVC2 release and that might be why i get a syntax errors at the opening brace:

Type or 'With' expected.

thx

Answer 1

If you want to set the title attribute on the generated html anchor you should inverse the parameters. Don't be confused by routeValues and htmlAttributes parameters.

<%= Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", 
    null, new { title = "Home Page" }
)%>

If you want to pass title as query string parameter then your code is fine.

The reason you are getting an exception is unrelated to the Html.ActionLink helper and is somewhere else.