title: ASP.NET MVC: how to include <span> in link from Html.ActionLink?
body: <p>I need the text of a link wrapped with <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> as in:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="/foo.html"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Edit Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can I do that with Html.ActionLink?  This doesn't work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%=Html.ActionLink("&lt;span&gt;Edit Group&lt;/span&gt;", "Edit", New With {.id = "bar"})%&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It just HTML encodes the <code>&lt;</code> and <code>&gt;</code> as <code>&amp;lt;</code> and <code>&amp;gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a simple solution, or should I build the links by hand with Url.Action?</p>
  
  <p>This is for use with jQuery-UI Tabs.  Tab labels need to be wrapped in <code>&lt;span&gt;</code> to get animation when AJAX content is loading.</p>