How do you generate a hyperlink from a Model in MVC Razor

Question

I want to store website addresses in a table in the database as either "http://some_website.com" or just as "some_website.com". Then in the view I have access to the text through "Model.Website". How can I generate a hyperlink? Is there a helper to do this?

Answer 1

Simply embed the model properties in a hyperlink element appropriately:

public class YourModel
{
    public string Href { get; set; }
    public string LinkText { get; set; }
}

...

<a href="@Model.Href">@Model.LinkText</a>