Add styling to all #Html.ActionLink from css class - html

Question

I know I am able to add a class to a #Html.Actionlink by using, which acts on a single Actionlink at a time:
#Html.ActionLink("Add",
"UpdateNote",
"Notes",
new { id = 0, type = (int)THOS.Utilities.Enumerations.Enumerations.Note.RelatedApplicationType.Law, appid = ((ObjectModelLibrary.Law)ViewData["currentLaw"]).LawID, baseappid = ((ObjectModelLibrary.Law)ViewData["currentLaw"]).LawID }
new { #class = "btn btn-primary icon-edit"},
null)
However,
Is there a way of defining a class (much like adding a style to all divs in the css file like:
div{
color: red;
}
^ ^
| |
this way will act on *all* divs
instead of going
<div class="myClass"></div>
I can just write:
<div></div>
which will automatically have color:red included
would there be a way of defining a class for an ActionLink without going to each actionlink and typing #Class="myClass"
For Example
for adding styling for all button instances:
input[type="button"]{
background-color:red;
}
Can i do this with something like:
input[type="actionlink"]{
//styles for all actionlinks in project
}
and so all actionlinks can be written as:
#Html.ActionLink("Action","Controller")
and automatically include the styling stated in my css file?
I would do this the first way, but i've already ~100 made without defining a class, and don't fancy copy and pasting:
class="myClass"

Answer 1

ActionLink generates just normal anchors, so you can write:
a{
color:red;
}
But to get just ActionLinks you will need to call them by a class or a container.
Also may be a better way to do it is to create a custom ActionLink and put a default class inside and using this class you can do your selector, like this you will use this new Custom ActionLink and no need to copy paste classes.
public static class LinkExtensions
{
public static MvcHtmlString MyActionLink(
this HtmlHelper htmlHelper,
string linkText,
string action,
string controller
)
{
var currentAction = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
var currentController = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
if (action == currentAction && controller == currentController)
{
var anchor = new TagBuilder("a");
anchor.Attributes["href"] = "#";
anchor.AddCssClass("currentPageCSS");
anchor.SetInnerText(linkText);
return MvcHtmlString.Create(anchor.ToString());
}
return htmlHelper.ActionLink(linkText, action, controller);
}
}
%= Html.MyActionLink("hello foo", "Index", "Home") %>
<%= Html.MyActionLink("hello bar", "About", "Home") %>
Code copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5084672/20126