How to make routelink return the correct URL?

Question

here is the procedure to duplicate the issue. - start new mvc 4 project. add the following lines to the RegisterRoutes() method just before the "Default" route ``` routes.MapRoute( name: "Test", url: "Test/{action}", defaults: new { controller = "Test", action = "Index" } ); ``` add the following to Index.cshtml and About.cshtml ``` @Html.RouteLink("link to TestController", "Test") ``` As you can see that the generated html code is different for the 2 pages. I would expect the URL is "/Test" which is rendered correctly for Index.cshtml, but it become "/Test/About" for About.cshtml. My question is if there is any documented way to generate the same correct URL. The above example is created just for demonstration purpose. I would like to use the routing table information to generate menu.

Accepted Answer

It seems the engine is setting the `action` route value from the current page ("Index", "About"). So one way to fix this is to "unset" that route value:

```
@Html.RouteLink("link to Test Controller", "Test", new { action = String.Empty })
```

How to make routelink return the correct URL?

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