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Remember the Anchor Tag Helper? It’s the one with asp-page and asp-route-{value} attributes that allows us to create <a> links that submit data with a GET request.

Previously we saw how the resulting asp-route-{value} appended a query string to the URL:

<a asp-page="./Blogpost" asp-route-id="4">ID 4</a>

The above Razor syntax would render as this HTML:

<a href="./Blogpost?id=4">ID 4</a>

What happens if our URL template accepts URL segments instead of a query string? It would be defined like this in Blogpost.cshtml:

@page {id}

Here we find another advantage of Tag Helpers over plain HTML: it automatically formats URLs to match the defined template.

When we use URL segments instead of query strings, the old Anchor Tag Helper…

<a asp-page="./Blogpost" asp-route-id="4">ID 4</a>

…would render as this HTML…

<a href="./Blogpost/4">ID 4</a>

In review:

  • asp-page — Sets an anchor tag’s href attribute value to a specific page
  • asp-route-{value} — Appends route values to the generated href attribute, either as query string values or URL segments (depending on the route template). {value} is the name of the parameter.

Instructions

1.

We removed the route template for Activity.cshtml (it just uses @page "/Days" now), meaning it again uses query parameters. The Anchor Tag Helpers within the file use the asp-route-day attribute to generate URLs like this:

localhost:8000/Days?day=1

You can try it for yourself by clicking the links.

Now change the @page line to specify the route template with one optional {day?} parameter. The asp-route-day attribute should now generate URLs like this:

localhost:8000/Days/1

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