ASP.Net MVC - Displaying text with newlines in

Question

I have some text, stored in a table. I'm using asp.net mvc to display this.

One of my views, has the following:

<%=(Model.QuestionBody.Replace("\r\n", "<br/>").Replace ("\r", "<br/>")) %>

Like this, it displays correctly However, if I omit the .Replace, it displays all on one line.

The same data displayed in a TextBox however, displays properly formatted.

My question is- Is there a better way of displaying the text in my View?

@gustavogb: It's an ASP.NET MVC question. I added the HTML tag. — Robert Harvey, Sep 13 '10 at 16:25

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '10 at 16:23

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You can put your text in a "pre" tag.

<pre>
   <%= Model.QuestionBody %>
</pre>

However usually this kind of text is stored in the database as html including the
tags.

answered Sep 13 '10 at 16:23

ggarber

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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I think this is the same issue isn't it? If so, solution could be the same.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

Community

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answered Sep 13 '10 at 18:00

alexber

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '16 at 19:05

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Best method... No conversions...

@model MyNameSpace.ViewModels.MyViewModel

@{
  ViewBag.Title = "Show formatted text";
}

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
  <div class="h3">
    <span style="white-space: pre-wrap">@Model.myText</span>
  </div>

}

answered Mar 07 '16 at 19:05

Zonus

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 13 '10 at 16:28

this is a handy dandy extention method i use to format strings with new lines. it's in vb, so if your a c# type person it'll neeed some tweaking. but it works and keeps the views tidy.

        <Extension()> _
        Public Function FormatForDisplay(ByVal stringToFormat As String) As String

            If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(stringToFormat) Then

                stringToFormat = Replace(stringToFormat, vbCrLf, "<br />")
                stringToFormat = Replace(stringToFormat, vbCr, "<br />")
                stringToFormat = Replace(stringToFormat, vbLf, "<br />")
                Return stringToFormat
            End If

            Return stringToFormat

        End Function

so then in your view you would have:

<%=(Model.QuestionBody.FormatForDisplay()) %>

ASP.Net MVC - Displaying text with newlines in

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