ASP.NET MVC Razor Ternary with HTML.ActionLink

Question

I am trying to do the answer to this:

With a Html.ActionLink; something like this:

@(ViewData["page"] == "Page1" ? "Page1" : Html.ActionLink("Page 1", "Page1", "Index"))

Is this possible?

SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-24 18:25:44Z

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A ternary operation must return the same type from both halves.
You're returning a String on the left, but an IHtmlString on the right.

Change it to

@(ViewData["page"] == "Page1" ? Html.Raw("Page1") : Html.ActionLink(...))

You may also want to move this into an HTML helper extension method.

answered Apr 24, 2011 at 18:25

SLaks

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