ASP.NET MVC Razor render without encoding

Question

Razor encodes string by default. Is there any special syntax for rendering without encoding?

Answer 1

As well as the already mentioned @Html.Raw(string) approach, if you output an MvcHtmlString it will not be encoded. This can be useful when adding your own extensions to the HtmlHelper, or when returning a value from your view model that you know may contain html.

For example, if your view model was:

public class SampleViewModel
{
  public string SampleString { get; set; }
  public MvcHtmlString SampleHtmlString { get; set; }
}

For Core 1.0+ (and MVC 5+) use HtmlString

public class SampleViewModel
{
  public string SampleString { get; set; }
  public HtmlString SampleHtmlString { get; set; }
}

then

@Model.SampleString

@Html.Raw(Model.SampleString)

@Model.SampleHtmlString