ASP MVC href to a controller/view

I have this:

<li><a href="/Users/Index)" class="elements"><span>Clients</span></a></li>

Which works fine. But if I am already on this page or on the controller e.g. /Users/Details and I click on this link it redirects me to /Users/Index.

How can I get the correct path in the href regardless of my current position on the site?

There are a couple of ways that you can accomplish this. You can do the following:

<li>
     @Html.ActionLink("Clients", "Index", "User", new { @class = "elements" }, null)
</li>

or this:

<li>
     <a href="@Url.Action("Index", "Users")" class="elements">
          <span>Clients</span>
     </a>
</li>

Lately I do the following:

<a href="@Url.Action("Index", null, new { area = string.Empty, controller = "User" }, Request.Url.Scheme)">
     <span>Clients</span>
</a>

The result would have http://localhost/10000 (or with whatever port you are using) to be appended to the URL structure like:

http://localhost:10000/Users

I hope this helps.

how about

<li>
<a href="@Url.Action("Index", "Users")" class="elements"><span>Clients</span></a>
</li>

Try the following:

<a asp-controller="Users" asp-action="Index"></a>

(Valid for ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6)

Here '~' refers to the root directory ,where Home is controller and Download_Excel_File is actionmethod

 <a href="~/Home/Download_Excel_File" />

You can modify with the following

<li><a href="./Index" class="elements"><span>Clients</span></a></li>

The extra dot means you are in the same controller. If you want change the controller to a different controller then you can write this

<li><a href="../newController/Index" class="elements"><span>Clients</span></a></li>

You can also use this very simplified form:

@Html.ActionLink("Come back to Home", "Index", "Home")

Where :
Come back to Home is the text that will appear on the page
Index is the view name
Homeis the controller name

If you want to use one modal for Create and Update You can also do this

C#

onclick="showInPopup('@Url.Action("CreateOrUpdate","Request",null,Context.Request.Scheme)','Create Request')"


onclick="showInPopup('@Url.Action("CreateOrUpdate","Request",new{id = item.id },Context.Request.Scheme)','Edit Request')"

JS

showInPopup = (url, title) => {
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: url,
        success: function (res) {
            $("#form-modal .modal-body").html(res);
            $("#form-modal .modal-title").html(title);
            $("#form-modal").modal('show');
        }
    })
}

If using ASP.NET Core, you can adjust the accepted answer to:

<a href="@Url.Action("Index", null, new { area = string.Empty, controller = "User" }, @Context.Request.Scheme)">
     <span>Clients</span>
</a>

replacing @Request.Url.Scheme with @Context.Request.Scheme