This works
<a href="@Url.Action("edit", "markets", new { id = 1 })"
data-rel="dialog" data-transition="pop" data-icon="gear" class="ui-btn-right">Edit</a>
But this doesn't. Why?
@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "edit", "markets", new { id = 1 }, new {@class="ui-btn-right", data-icon="gear"})
It seems you can't pass something like data-icon="gear" into htmlAttributes?
Suggestions?
The problem is that your anonymous object property data-icon has an invalid name. C# properties cannot have dashes in their names. There are two ways you can get around that:
Use an underscore instead of dash (MVC will automatically replace the underscore with a dash in the emitted HTML):
@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "edit", "markets",
new { id = 1 },
new {@class="ui-btn-right", data_icon="gear"})
Use the overload that takes in a dictionary:
@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "edit", "markets",
new { id = 1 },
new Dictionary<string, object> { { "class", "ui-btn-right" }, { "data-icon", "gear" } });
Ajax.ActionLink helpers
Replace the desired hyphen with an underscore; it will automatically be rendered as a hyphen:
@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "edit", "markets",
new { id = 1 },
new {@class="ui-btn-right", data_icon="gear"})
becomes:
<form action="markets/Edit/1" class="ui-btn-right" data-icon="gear" .../>
@Html.ActionLink("display name", "action", "Contorller"
new { id = 1 },Html Attribute=new {Attribute1="value"})
