Html.BeginForm will cause unwanted breaking of styling on most pages, particularly if you're placing it in a nav or similar area. This gist demonstrates how to move the Logout link, which in the ASP.NET MVC starter project is implemented using a form, to somewhere else on the page. We then fire it using some javascript in a link somewhere else o…

index.cshtml

<!-- 
   This javascript code will find the logout form on your page and do the submit. 
   We do this separation so we can have total control over styling.
-->
<a href="javascript:document.getElementById('logoutForm').submit()">Logout!</a>

<!-- 
    Put this form anywhere you want outside your content area so styling isn't jacked up. 
-->
@using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "logoutForm", @class = "navbar-form pull-right" }))
    {@Html.AntiForgeryToken()}