How to insert a HTML character into this Html.ActionLink?

Question

I'm using the following code to generate this:

<p>@Html.ActionLink("Read", "Index", "News", null, new { @class = "btn btn-default" })</p>

But I want to make a button that looks like this (with the use of HTML character »):

However when I do the following:

<p>@Html.ActionLink("Read &raquo;", "Index", "News", null, new { @class = "btn btn-default" })</p>

I get this:

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Other solutions given here work. But just in case you are wondering, what to do if you dont have the special character on keyboard, here it goes:

You can either use

<a href='@Url.Action("Index", "News")' class="btn btn-default">Read &raquo;</a>

OR

@Html.ActionLink(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("Read »"), "Index", "News", null, new { @class = "btn btn-default" })

Answer 2

The text will be encoded by ActionLink() implementation, so you don't need to do it. Just use that char in the string.