Need help on Forms authentication Logout method in MVC.

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Hi,
I am pretty new to MVC. Started with simple login and logout links on a page.
When I click on Log out link, the form is not logging out actually.
Here's my code,

[HttpPost]
      public ActionResult LogOut()
      {
          if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
          {
              FormsAuthentication.SignOut();
          }
          return View();
      }

I even tried some other stuff like "Response.Cookies.Clear();" but no use.

If a log in is successful, I want to display some links in the menu to navigate to other pages.
So I took a _loginpartial view and kept in a Layout page.
The _loginpartial view is

@if (Request.IsAuthenticated) {
    <text>
        <div class="float-right">
        Hello, @Html.Encode(User.Identity.Name) 
         @using (Html.BeginForm("LogOut", "User", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "logoutForm" })) {
            <a href="java<!-- no -->script:document.getElementById('logoutForm').submit()">Log out</a>
        }
            <br /><br />
                    
                            @Html.ActionLink("Publishers", "Index", "Publisher")
                            @Html.ActionLink("Customers", "Index", "Customer") 
                            @Html.ActionLink("Authors", "Index", "Author")
                     
                </div>
    </text>
} else {
    
        @Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register", "User", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { id = "registerLink" })
        @Html.ActionLink("Log in", "Login", "User", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { id = "loginLink" })
    
}

I even tried to give a layout as null in Log out view.
I don't know whether we could check the Request.IsAuthenticated property in viewstart page, but
I also tried to give a layout as null in viewstart if user is not authenticated.

Help me on this..

Thanks in advance.