.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
")

Question

Why does .Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br />") give this result:

asdasd<br />waahahahaha<br />asdadsa<br />multiline<br /><br /><br />asdad

probably because you had a new line character in those places. — Tomas Jansson, Feb 15 '11 at 10:53
what i want is for the
to go away and get the next line down — paul, Feb 15 '11 at 11:30

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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Probably because there are more than one new line between "multiline" and "asdad".

Example

var someText = string.Format("First line{0}Second line{0}Multiple line breaks{0}{0}{0}some text", Environment.NewLine);

var html = someText.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br />");

html will now look like this:

First line<br />Second line<br/>Multiple line breaks<br /><br /><br />some text

Edit

In your case your web page will display the <br /> in the web-browser and not create a new line because it encodes the html output.

What you will need to do is use HtmlString, try this:

<div class="display-field">
    <%: new HtmlString(Model.Body.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br />")) %>
</div>

Also see this thread here on StackOverflow talking about "ASP.NET MVC Razor - output HTML string non escaped".

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Feb 15 '11 at 10:52

Filip Ekberg

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but im using
<%: Model.Body.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
")%>
– paul Feb 15 '11 at 11:16
@paul, `Model.Body` most likely contains multiple NewLines between `mutiline` and `asdad`. – Filip Ekberg Feb 15 '11 at 11:21
nope...but when i view the page source its showing that
is now <br /> – paul Feb 15 '11 at 11:28
@paul, Ohhh I get your problem now.. Hold on, I will update my answer. – Filip Ekberg Feb 15 '11 at 11:31
@paul, It was a typo, there should be a `:` there as well. Updated again! – Filip Ekberg Feb 15 '11 at 11:59
@Filip Ekberg: You can use a {x} multiple times. In your example you could have simply used {0} all the time – citronas Feb 15 '11 at 12:53
@citronas, good point. I've edited the answer. If you see things like this, feel free to edit answers. – Filip Ekberg Feb 15 '11 at 13:07
@Filip Ekberg: I have do get used to the idea, that I now have the edit functionality ;) – citronas Feb 15 '11 at 15:59
@citronas, everyone can edit, just needs to be approved by users with 10k rep and above. – Filip Ekberg Feb 15 '11 at 17:37
I was looking for a solution in web forms. "new HtmlString" works like a charme: <%#: new HtmlString(Item.Body.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
")) %> – Tillito Aug 11 '14 at 17:29

.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "")

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