title: Pass parameter with window.location.href to MVC ActionResult
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it and have seen a lot of suggestions, but can't get anything to work quite right and would rather do it the best way first. </p>
  
  <p>Here's the ActionResult on the Controller: </p>
  
  <pre><code>public ActionResult Details(string selectedArtist)
  {
      //other code
      return View(selectedArtist)
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's the javascript on the client: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$('#results').on('click', '.item', function () {
          var selectedArtist = $(this).data('artistInfo');
          var selectedId = encodeURIComponent('ARE602H1187FB3B8F8')
          var url = '@Url.Action("Details", "Artist", new { id = "__id__" })';
          window.location.href = url.replace('__id__', selectedId);
      })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Ideally, I would like the pass the selectedArtist object to the controller. It's basically a javascript class that matches a Artist model I have. For now though as a test I am just trying to pass an Id as a string to the controller and can't get it to, it just always comes up as NULL.</p>
  
  <p>The request that it's building looks pretty good to me ".../Artist/Details/ARE602H1187FB3B8F". However, I'm debugging and the parameter on the controller always ends up NULL. </p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something? And/or is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance. </p>