Razor html escaping on attribute

Question

I am trying to create a the following tag using Razor but am having problems with html escaping.

<input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="EditOnClick('Name','Description')"/>

I have tried the following solutions

string onClick = string.Format("OnEdit(\'{0}\',\'{1}\')", item.Name, item.Description);
<input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="@Html.Raw(onClick)"/>
<input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="@(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(onClick))"/>
<input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="@(new HtmlString(Model.Content))"/>

What code does onclick="@Html.Raw(onClick)" actually generate on the client side? You mentioned onclick="EditOnClick('Name','Description')" but I can't see EditOnClick inside string.Format text. — noseratio
– noseratio, Commented Aug 8, 2013 at 22:27

hjavaher · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-08 22:23:45Z

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Why not just do the following:

 <input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="EditOnClick('@item.Name', '@item.Description')"/>

or if they might have html in them:

 <input type="button" value="Edit" onclick="EditOnClick('@Html.Raw(item.Name)', '@Html.Raw(item.Description)')"/>

answered Aug 8, 2013 at 22:23

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2 Comments

Dylan Over a year ago

I feel like an idiot. The first one works fine, however, Razor flagged it as unterminated string constant with a red line so I thought it was an error. Thanks for your help.

hjavaher Over a year ago

No problem, glad I was able to help :)

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