Prevent Html.ActionLink adding route values automatically

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I have a action link setup like so:

@Html.ActionLink("Orders", "Index", "Order")

When I am on the page http://mydomain.com/Order/Index/2 that action link becomes a link to the page that I am on. How do I make it always link to http://mydomain.com/Order/Index

archil · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-12 12:24:15Z

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That's because routing engine reuses route variables from the current request. To prevent it from happening, you should always supply value for route variable.

    //assuming that last /2 corresponds to route variable named id

    @Html.ActionLink("Orders", "Index", "Order", new {id = ""}, null)

answered Oct 12, 2011 at 12:24

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Jon Over a year ago

I tried null instead of new {id=""} previously but that didnt work

archil Over a year ago

null means value is not supplied. It is default value in fact - that anonymous object is translated into RouteValueDictionary. And it returns null if the key was not found in it - so no difference if you supply null or do not supply value at all

Jason Bray Over a year ago

This seems very counter-intuitive. I would not expect it to do this. I wonder if there's a way to configure the routing engine.

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