asp.net mvc3 return raw html to view

Question

Are there other ways I can return raw html from controller? As opposed to just using viewbag. like below:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    publ         


        

Answer 1

What was working for me (ASP.NET Core), was to set return type ContentResult, then wrap the HMTL into it and set the ContentType to "text/html; charset=UTF-8". That is important, because, otherwise it will not be interpreted as HTML and the HTML language would be displayed as text.

Here's the example, part of a Controller class:

/// 

/// Startup message displayed in browser.
/// 
/// HTML result
[HttpGet]
public ContentResult Get()
{
    var result = Content("
Demo started successfully."
      + "
Use Swagger"
      + " to view API.
");
    result.ContentType = "text/html; charset=UTF-8";
    return result;
}