I would like to use custom @Html.ActionLink
I am trying to use the following code:-
public static class LinkExtensions
{
public static MvcHtmlString MyActionLink(
this HtmlHelper htmlHelper,
string linkText,
string action,
string controller)
{
var currentAction = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
var currentController = mlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
if (action == currentAction && controller == currentController)
{
var anchor = new TagBuilder("a");
anchor.Attributes["href"] = "#";
anchor.AddCssClass("currentPageCSS");
anchor.SetInnerText(linkText);
return MvcHtmlString.Create(anchor.ToString());
}
return htmlHelper.ActionLink(linkText, action, controller);
}
}
From Custom ActionLink helper that knows what page you're on
But I am getting
System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' does not contain a definition for 'ActionLink' and no extension method 'ActionLink' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?
Add this using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
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