Preventing URL encoding in links

Question

I am working with an MVC web app. My Home/Index page displays a table through a series of AJAX calls from dropdown lists and button presses. I currently have it set up to store what links are being chosen in location.hash . On loading the page it looks in location.hash and calls the appropriate functions to recreate the page as intended. I have links working like http://localhost:xxxxx/Home/Index#1 .

My 2 questions: A: On a separate page I am trying to link back to this page with @Html.ActionLink("Cancel", "Home/Index#1") . Unfortunately the URL gets encoded to http://localhost:xxxxx/text/Home/Index%231 causing it to not work. How can I prevent this and get the proper URL to be passed?

B: I am trying to get my submit to link to a specific spot on my index page. <button type="submit">Submit</button> . Where and how would I add a link to get the submit to take me to http://localhost:xxxxx/Home/Index#1 rather than http://localhost:xxxxx/Home/Index ?

I know asking two questions isn't good, but I thought these were similar and related enough to be okay. Any information on either or both is appreciated.

Answer 1

A: The URL gets encoded automatically with HTML helpers that I found. I instead just used <a href="~/Home/Index#1">Cancel</a> . It's not quite as fancy, but works.

B: My problem was in my controller. I send my data back to the controller to handle and then transfer to index from there. I was using a RedirectToAction, but again it encodes. return Redirect("~/Home/Index#1"); seems to be working.

If there are obvious problems with these solutions, please share. Otherwise at the moment, this seems to be the solution.