ASP.NET MVC: Highlighting current link - asp.net

Question

I need to highlight current link in menu, But structure of HTML is look like below:
<li class="active">
<a href='#Url.Action("MainPage", "Ticket")'>
<i class="fa fa-fw fa-home"></i>
HomePage
</a>
</li>
I know there are many different solutions to do that (+, +):
public static MvcHtmlString MenuLink(
this HtmlHelper helper,
string text, string action, string controller)
{
var routeData = helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values;
var currentController = routeData["controller"];
var currentAction = routeData["action"];
if (String.Equals(action, currentAction as string,
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
&&
String.Equals(controller, currentController as string,
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
return helper.ActionLink(
text, action, controller, null,
new { #class = "active" }
);
}
return helper.ActionLink(text, action, controller);
}
But my HTML structure is a little bit different.
How can I do that?
Any idea?

Answer 1

Finally I changed the code this way and it works: (Thanks to #Stephen Muecke)
public static MvcHtmlString MenuLink(
this HtmlHelper helper,
string content, string action, string controller)
{
var routeData = helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values;
var currentController = routeData["controller"];
var currentAction = routeData["action"];
var builder = new TagBuilder("li")
{
InnerHtml = content
};
if (String.Equals(action, currentAction as string,
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
&&
String.Equals(controller, currentController as string,
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
builder.AddCssClass("active");
return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString());
}
return MvcHtmlString.Create(builder.ToString());
}