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Dynamic Breadcrumbs in C# MVC5 app

I need breadcrumbs for my MVC website in this format:

<span class="inline odd first"><a href="/">Home</a></span>
<span class="delimiter">></span>
<span class="inline even"><a href="#">Link 1</a></span>
<span class="delimiter">></span>
<span class="inline odd"><a href="#">Link 2</a></span>
<span class="delimiter">></span>
<span class="inline even"><a href="#">Link 3</a></span>
<span class="delimiter">></span>
<span class="inline odd"><a href="#">Link 4</a></span>
<span class="delimiter">></span>
<span class="inline even last">You Are Here</span>

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All the samples I've seen are using some kind of layout that uses and unordered list with list items.

This is how it needs to look:

Home > Link 1 > Link 2 > Link 3 > Link 4 > You Are Here

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I've tried some NuGet offerings, MVCBreadCrumb, and MVCSiteMapProvider but couldn't get them to actually work in my project.

Anyone know a quick way to do this?

Eddie Shipman

ASKER

I found this and it works somewhat. I just can't get it to format the span's correctly based on the even/odd paradigm.

@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")
@if (ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString() != "Home")
{
    @Html.Raw(" > ")@Html.ActionLink(ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString(), "Index", ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString())
}
@if (ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString() != "Index")
{
    @Html.Raw(" > ")@Html.ActionLink(ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString(), ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString(), ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString())
}

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Eddie Shipman

ASKER

Not using ActionLinks.

louisfr

They looked like ActionLinks in your previous post.