Links not displaying properly in ASP MVC3 razor view

Question

I've implemented the solution explained in this post How to get tweet's HTML with LinqToTwitter? but when I display my tweets the HTML links appear like this

<a class="inline" href="http://twitter.com/cgitosh" target="_blank">@cgitosh</a> And how are you?

instead of just showing @cgitosh And how are you? with @cgitosh linking to the twitter account.

What I'm I not doing right?

Razor code snipet:

@{var tweet = TwitterExtensions.Text2Html(item.Text);}
<div>@tweet</div>

So I basically pass the tweet text to the Text2HTML function which is explained in the link provided above which returns the tweet with links to the variable tweet which I then output in my view

Do you have the page up anywhere? If so, can you link to it? Would help to take a look. — antinescience, Mar 24 '13 at 14:05
I'm developing on local machine. which other way can I help clarify? — cgitosh, Mar 24 '13 at 14:07
Can you post the razor snippet where you're calling the TextAsHTML helper? — antinescience, Mar 24 '13 at 14:09
I've edited my question to include the razor snippet. hope it's adequate — cgitosh, Mar 24 '13 at 14:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '13 at 14:25

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Try like this:

<div>@Html.Raw(tweet)</div>

The Html.Raw method will not HTML encode the output which is what Razor does by default.

answered Mar 24 '13 at 14:25

Darin Dimitrov

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '13 at 14:25

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Try:

@{var tweet = TwitterExtensions.Text2Html(item.Text);}
<div>@(new HtmlString(tweet))</div>

...and unless you're using tweet elsewhere, you could just do

<div>@(new HtmlString(TwitterExtensions.Text2Html(item.Text)))</div>

Razor by default HTML encodes strings, so you have to explicitly tell it to render it as markup. (See here.) Hope this helps!

answered Mar 24 '13 at 14:25

antinescience

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Thanks a lot mate. would never have found this out in a thousand years :) – cgitosh Mar 24 '13 at 14:29

Links not displaying properly in ASP MVC3 razor view

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