Putting HTML inside Html.ActionLink(), plus No Link Text?

.net, actionlink, asp.net-mvc, c#

Solution

Instead of using Html.ActionLink you can render a url via Url.Action

<a href="<%= Url.Action("Index", "Home") %>"><span>Text</span></a>
<a href="@Url.Action("Index", "Home")"><span>Text</span></a>

And to do a blank url you could have

<a href="<%= Url.Action("Index", "Home") %>"></a>
<a href="@Url.Action("Index", "Home")"></a>

Problem

I have two questions: - I'm wondering how I can display no link text when using `Html.ActionLink()` in an MVC view (actually, this is `Site.Master`). There is not an overloaded version that does not allow link text, and when I try passing in just a blank `string`, the compiler tells me it needs a non-empty string. How can I fix this? I need to put `<span>` tags within the anchor tag, but it's not working with `Html.ActionLink();`. I'd like to see the following output: Span text How can I put tags inside of the anchor tag in ASP.NET MVC?

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