What is the difference between @url.action() and @html.action()

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I was redirecting my View to Controller in .Net.But when i write

@Url.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")

it redirected the page successfully,and when i checked my page view source it was generating url to my controller.But when i accidentally typed

@Html.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")

it does not redirected to my controller,and when i checked view source of my page it was only generating the name of my controller.So are they different?is so,where to use which one?Please help.Thanks for your help.

What I have tried:

@Url.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")
@Html.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")

Posted 14-Mar-16 2:33am

Mehraj Malik

Updated 14-Mar-16 3:03am

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Manas_Kumar · Answer 1 · 2016-03-14T03:03:00

@Url.Action()

It generates a URL as per provided action name, contrillername, route object.
It contains 8 overload methods.

Razor

@Url.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")

@Html.Action()

It calls child action in a controller and return Html string as result.
It contains 6 overload methods.

Razor

@Html.Action("ActionMethod","Controller")

Controller action:

C#

public class MyController
{
	[ChildActionOnly]
	public ActionResult ActionMethod() 
	{
		var menu = GetMenuFromSomewhere();
		  return PartialView(menu);
	}
}

Use @Url.Action() when you are redirecting any page, you can use that in

Razor

<a href="@Url.Action("Action")">click</a>

In other hand you need to use @Html.Action() when you need result as HTML string. You can bind partial in your view page.