ASP.NET MVC 3: Stack Overflow on a Html.Action?

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By definition I had to post this question. I received the error on this line using ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASPX form. Where's my typo?

<a href="<%= Html.Action("About", "Home") %>">
<img src="<%= Url.Content("~/Content/images/newfront_04.jpg") %>" /></a>

StackOverflowException

I created a blank project to compare:

Web Config is identical minus connection strings (including Views web.config)
Global.asax.cs including routes is identical minus namespace
Page directive is identical
Home Controller code is identical minus namespace
Taking this line out makes everything work
The entire page is html with the exception of the page directive and ContentPlaceHolders
This is the Site.Master file

Can you post the code for your route? Also the declaration for the Action and any Attributes over the controller. Just basically anything that is going into the logic for picking the route. — Yuriy Faktorovich
– Yuriy Faktorovich, Commented Dec 15, 2011 at 5:09
Is a partial view involved by any chance? You may want to include some more of view. — Phil Klein
– Phil Klein, Commented Dec 15, 2011 at 5:12

Andrew Barber · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15 05:24:16Z

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Html.Action is actually rendering that action where you are putting that code, and it's causing reentrancy there. That is: it's calling the whole action and outputting the resulting view... not outputting the url.

What you probably wanted was Html.ActionLink (which renders the whole A tag for you), instead, or Url.Action, to just output the URL - rather than the action result again.

answered Dec 15, 2011 at 5:24

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nathan gonzalez Over a year ago

and again. and again. and again. +1

xbrady · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15 05:26:39Z

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Try Url.Action instead of Html.Action

<a href="<%= Url.Action("About", "Home") %>">
<img src="<%= Url.Content("~/Content/images/newfront_04.jpg") %>" /></a>

answered Dec 15, 2011 at 5:26

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