Including an anchor tag in an ASP.NET MVC Html.ActionLink

I don't remember in which version of ASP.NET MVC (ASP.NET MVC 3+ I believe) / Razor the parameterlabeldeclaration or whatever it's called (parameter: x) feature was introduced, but to me this is definitely the proper way to build a link with an anchor in ASP.NET MVC.

@Html.ActionLink("Some link text", "MyAction", "MyController", protocol: null, hostName: null, fragment: "MyAnchor", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: null)

Not even Ed Blackburns antipattern argument from this answer can compete with that.

I just did it like this:

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

I would probably build the link manually, like this:

<a href="<%=Url.Action("Subcategory", "Category", new { categoryID = parent.ID }) %>#section12">link text</a>

There are overloads of ActionLink which take a fragment parameter. Passing "section12" as your fragment will get you the behavior you're after.

For example, calling LinkExtensions.ActionLink Method (HtmlHelper, String, String, String, String, String, String, Object, Object):

<%= Html.ActionLink("Link Text", "Action", "Controller", null, null, "section12-the-anchor", new { categoryid = "blah"}, null) %>