How to make Html.DisplayFor display line breaks?

Question

Embarrassingly newbie question:

I have a string field in my model that contains line breaks.

@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.MultiLineText)         


        

Answer 1

A HtmlHelper extension method to display string values with line breaks:

public static MvcHtmlString DisplayWithBreaksFor(this HtmlHelper html, Expression> expression)
{
    var metadata = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, html.ViewData);
    var model = html.Encode(metadata.Model).Replace("\r\n", "
\r\n");

    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(model))
        return MvcHtmlString.Empty;

    return MvcHtmlString.Create(model);
}

And then you can use the following syntax:

@Html.DisplayWithBreaksFor(m => m.MultiLineField)