asp.net MVC
How to return an ActionResult string in MVC?
By: Mohamed Rasik | Oct,22 2016 | Html , MVCIn this article, I will show to how to return a string result using ActionResult in mvc 4. You can achieve this by ContentResult to return a string. It will create content result object by using a string.
Controller Action Method:
public ActionResult GetHtmlPage(string path)
{
string strHTML = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(path));
return Content(strHTML);
}
View:
<div class="panel" >
@Html.Action("GetHtmlPage", "LoadHtml", new { path = "~/practice/dialog.html" })
</div>
I created an html file and named as dialog.html and going to return as string result using ActionResult for html page in asp.net MVC.
Dialog.html:
<body>
<div id="dialog">
<header>A dialog box of some description</header>
Lorem ipsum etc, etc.
<footer>
<button>Ok</button></footer>
</div>
</body>
Output:
