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

Here's another extension method option.

    public static IHtmlString DisplayFormattedFor(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression> expression)
    {
        string value = Convert.ToString(ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData).Model);

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
        {
            return MvcHtmlString.Empty;
        }

        value = string.Join("
", value.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None).Select(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode));

        return new HtmlString(value);
    }