Display string as html in asp net mvc view

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I have a controller which generates a string containing html markup  When it displays on views  it is displayed as a simple string containing all tags  I tried to use an Html helper to encode decode to display it properly  but it is not working  string str   quot  lt a href  quot  Home Profile seeker quot  gt seeker lt  a gt  has applied to  lt a href  quot  Jobs Details 9 quot  gt Job lt  a gt  floated by you  lt  br gt  quot    On my views   Html Encode str

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I had a similar problem recently  and google landed me here  so I put this answer here in case others land here as well  for completeness   I noticed that when I had badly formatted html  I was actually having all my html tags stripped out  with just the non-tag content remaining   I particularly had a table with a missing opening table tag  and then all my html tags from the entire string where ripped out completely   So  if the above doesn t work  and you re still scratching your head  then also check you html for being valid   I notice even after I got it working  MVC was adding tbody tags where I had none   This tells me there is clean up happening  MVC 5   and that when it can t happen  it strips out all some tags

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You should be using IHtmlString instead   IHtmlString str   new HtmlString   lt a href   Home Profile seeker  gt seeker lt  a gt  has applied to  lt a href   Jobs Details 9  gt Job lt  a gt  floated by you  lt  br gt       Whenever you have model properties or variables that need to hold HTML  I feel this is generally a better practice  First of all  it is a bit cleaner  For example    Html Raw str    Compared to    str   Also  I also think it s a bit safer vs  using  Html Raw    as the concern of whether your data is HTML is kept in your controller  In an environment where you have front-end vs  back-end developers  your back-end developers may be more in tune with what data can hold HTML values  thus keeping this concern in the back-end  controller    I generally try to avoid using Html Raw   whenever possible   One other thing worth noting  is I m not sure where you re assigning str  but a few things that concern me with how you may be implementing this   First  this should be done in a controller  regardless of your solution  IHtmlString or Html Raw   You should avoid any logic like this in your view  as it doesn t really belong there   Additionally  you should be using your ViewModel for getting values to your view  and again  ideally using IHtmlString as the property type   Seeing something like  Html Encode str  is a little concerning  unless you were doing this just to simplify your example

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you can use  Html Raw str  See MSDN for more  Returns markup that is not HTML encoded  This method wraps HTML markup using the IHtmlString class  which renders unencoded HTML

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I had a similar problem with HTML input fields in MVC   The web paged only showed the first keyword of the field  Example  input field   The quick brown fox    Displayed value   The   The resolution was to put the variable in quotes in the value statement as follows    lt input class  ParmInput  type  text  id  respondingRangerUnit  name  respondingRangerUnit         onchange  validateInteger this value   value   ViewBag respondingRangerUnit  gt

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You are close you want to use  Html Raw str    Html Encode takes strings and ensures that all the special characters are handled properly  These include characters like spaces

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