title: MVC3 ActionLink with images (but without MvcFutures)?
body: <p>I was wondering if anyone knows if it possible to use any of the "out of the box" ASP.NET MVC3 helpers to generate a "link button"...I currently use following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a class="button" title="My Action" href="@Url.Action("MyAction", "MyController", new { id = item.Id })"&gt;
      &lt;img alt="My Action" src="@Url.Content("~/Content/Images/MyLinkImage.png")" /&gt;
  &lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to avoid using MvcFutures, but even if I was able to use them, I don't think there is a extension method it there that will accomplish this either. (I believe solution in this case would be to roll custom helper <a href="http://blogs.aspiant.com/Mirko/2009/06/15/ASPNETMVCStronglyTypedActionLinkWithImages.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">as seen here</a>)</p>
  
  <p>Finally, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/596444/html-actionlink-as-a-button-or-an-image-not-a-link/667834#667834">this post</a> also has a good idea to handle this via CSS, but that is not what I am asking...</p>