title: MVC3 Action link - Image buttons that trigger Jquery
body: <pre><code>@Html.ActionLink("Apple", "ActionName", new { id = item.id }, new { @class = 
  
  "cssClassandModalPopup" })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This gives me a link called Apple, that onclick pops up a Jquery modal Dialog. I want to change this link text to a button (a .png file I have). I tried both url.action and also tried to assign background image in css, but the result has not been 100% satisfactory. If I use url.action, I am not able to use the last paramenter for Jquery dialog pop up. If I use the action link and assign background image in css, the "Text name" string (first paramenter above) is over laid with the image not producing good result. And it wont take an empty value as parameter.. any ideas please?</p>