Project is based on as.net mvc and i am using Razor as the view engine.
I am using LINQ2Sql classes to extract data from the database. In a one particular column there is content with html formatting.
While extracting this data using LINQ and then putting it in a viewbag and then using it in a display view. The formatting got lost because of the fact the < brackets are converted to < and />.
How to avoid this?
You could use the following method:
System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("your string")
For further documentation about this method, please have a look here .
The above method is helpful provided that your html is stored as encoded html. Otherwise it will no be helpful. As Mathew pointed out in his comment, then you should use the following method:
@Html.Raw("your string")
@Html.Raw(string) to convert it to a MvcHtmlString and bypass the auto encoding. You might want to include that in your answer.Render HTML directly by either wrapping it in an MvcHtmlString instance, or rendering it directly with <%: myHtmlString %>.
