ASP.NET MVC 3 : How to force an ActionLink to do a HttpPost instead of an HttpGet?

asp.net-mvc, asp.net-mvc-3

Solution

`ActionLink` helper method will render an `anchor` tag, clicking on which is always a `GET` request. If you want to make it a `POST` request. You should override the default behviour using a little javacsript

@ActionLink("Delete","Delete","Item",new {@id=4},new { @class="postLink"})

Now some `jQuery` code

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function(){
    $("a.postLink").click(function(e){
      e.preventDefault();
      $.post($(this).attr("href"),function(data){
          // got the result in data variable. do whatever you want now
          //may be reload the page
      });
    });    
  });    
</script>

Make sure you have an `Action` method of `HttpPost` type to handle this request

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Delete(int id)
{
  // do something awesome here and return something      
}

Problem

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