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

The display template is probably the best solution but there is another easy option of using an html helper if you know you're just displaying a string, e.g.:

namespace Shaul.Web.Helpers
{
    public static class HtmlHelpers
    {
        public static IHtmlString ReplaceBreaks(this HtmlHelper helper, string str)
        {
            return MvcHtmlString.Create(str.Split(new string[] { "\r\n", "\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None).Aggregate((a, b) => a + "
" + b));
        }
    }
}

And then you'd use it like:

@using Shaul.Web.Helpers

@Html.ReplaceBreaks(Model.MultiLineText)