I need to determine if I'm on a particular view. My use case is that I'd like to decorate navigation elements with an "on" class for the current view. Is there a built in way of doing this?
Solution 1 There is no difference in the markup between a partial view and a view; the only difference is in how they are delivered to the browser. A partial view is sent via AJAX and must be consumed by JavaScript on the client side, while a View is a full postback. That's it.
Call the appropriate /controller/action in your respective button click handlers. In your case for the register button handler direct it to /home/register. Have a view for your register functionality. In the register action of your home controller return the view you want to show.
When ASP.NET MVC attempts to resolve a view template, it will first check within the \Views[Controller] specific directory, and if it can't find the view template there it will look within the \Views\Shared directory.
The default behavior of the View method ( return View(); ) is to return a view with the same name as the action method from which it's called. For example, the About ActionResult method name of the controller is used to search for a view file named About.
Here what i am using. I think this is actually generated by the MVC project template in VS:
public static bool IsCurrentAction(this HtmlHelper helper, string actionName, string controllerName)
{
string currentControllerName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
string currentActionName = (string)helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"];
if (currentControllerName.Equals(controllerName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase) && currentActionName.Equals(actionName, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
return true;
return false;
}
My current solution is with extension methods:
public static class UrlHelperExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Determines if the current view equals the specified action
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TController">The type of the controller.</typeparam>
/// <param name="helper">Url Helper</param>
/// <param name="action">The action to check.</param>
/// <returns>
/// <c>true</c> if the specified action is the current view; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool IsAction<TController>(this UrlHelper helper, LambdaExpression action) where TController : Controller
{
MethodCallExpression call = action.Body as MethodCallExpression;
if (call == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Expression must be a method call", "action");
}
return (call.Method.Name.Equals(helper.ViewContext.ViewName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) &&
typeof(TController) == helper.ViewContext.Controller.GetType());
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if the current view equals the specified action
/// </summary>
/// <param name="helper">Url Helper</param>
/// <param name="actionName">Name of the action.</param>
/// <returns>
/// <c>true</c> if the specified action is the current view; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool IsAction(this UrlHelper helper, string actionName)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(actionName))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Please specify the name of the action", "actionName");
}
string controllerName = helper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
return IsAction(helper, actionName, controllerName);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if the current view equals the specified action
/// </summary>
/// <param name="helper">Url Helper</param>
/// <param name="actionName">Name of the action.</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">Name of the controller.</param>
/// <returns>
/// <c>true</c> if the specified action is the current view; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool IsAction(this UrlHelper helper, string actionName, string controllerName)
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(actionName))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Please specify the name of the action", "actionName");
}
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(controllerName))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Please specify the name of the controller", "controllerName");
}
if (!controllerName.EndsWith("Controller", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
controllerName = controllerName + "Controller";
}
bool isOnView = helper.ViewContext.ViewName.SafeEquals(actionName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
return isOnView && helper.ViewContext.Controller.GetType().Name.Equals(controllerName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
}
}
Here is something a little different, use a FilterAttribute:
[NavigationLocationFilter("Products")]
public ViewResult List()
{
return View();
}
...
public class NavigationLocationFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public string CurrentLocation { get; set; }
public NavigationLocationFilterAttribute(string currentLocation)
{
CurrentLocation = currentLocation;
}
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
var controller = (Controller)filterContext.Controller;
controller.ViewData.Add("NavigationLocation", CurrentLocation);
}
}
...
And in the view:
<%= ViewData["NavigationLocation"] %>
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