Outputting MVC ViewBag text with some areas not encoded?

Question

Consider the following example:

<div>@ViewBag.MyData</div>

What to do if ViewBag.MyData contains a string with "\n" (newlines) in it, that I want to change into "<br/>"? When I include "<br/>" instead of the newlines, it gets encoded in the browser, which is bad.

How can I help this?

Answer 1

use @Html.Raw(ViewBag.MyData.Replace("\n", "</br>"))

Answer 2

the following will do what you need...

@MvcHtmlString.Create(ViewBag.MyData.Replace("\n", "</br>"))

The Create method will take a HTML string and render it as would be expected if you just typed the HTML straight onto the page