How to make a pager with MVCContrib and Razor?

Question

I have a pager as follows:

@using MvcContrib.UI.Pager
@model MvcContrib.Pagination.IPagination

<p/>
  @Html.Pager(Model).First("First").Last("Last").Next("Next").Previous("Previous")
<p/>

Instead of displaying this:

Showing 1 - 10 of 10841 First | Previous | Next | Last

It displays this:

<div class='pagination'><span class='paginationLeft'>Showing 1 - 10 of 10841 </span><span class='paginationRight'>First | Previous | <a href="/Home/Events?page=2">Next</a> | <a href="/Home/Events?page=1085">Last</a></span></div>

I also downloaded a sample project from codeproject, but when I run it, I get the same problem.

What could possibly be the problem? Can you guys help me out?

Care to point out the specific issue? The HTML looks fine, so I'm not sure what the issue is. — Tejs, Apr 05 '11 at 19:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '11 at 19:24

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Razor automatically encodes html if you return a String. It won't encode Html if you return an IHtmlString.

Does the pager method return a String instead of IHtmlString?

Try using Html.Raw. This method will convert a String to an IHtmlString.

@Html.Raw(Html.Pager(Model).First("First").Last("Last").Next("Next").Previous("Previous"))

answered Apr 05 '11 at 19:24

Linkgoron

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I had to do `@Html.Raw(Html.Pager(Model).First("First").Last("Last").Next("Next").Previous("Previous").ToString())` but otherwise it worked for me! – Mike Wills Nov 01 '11 at 20:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '11 at 19:56

The reason it works in the sample project and not your project is because in the sample project they're using the @Html.Pager in a partial page which is then called on the main page using @{Html.RenderPartial();} when rendering like that the rendered string from the Pager is output as html rather than encoded html.

If you need to use the pager without the subpages then you'll need to wrap the call in Html.Raw as Linkgoron suggested as the Html.Pager defaults to using the ToString which returns a string and not IHtmlString

Your technique of using @Html.Raw(Html.Pager(...).ToString()) worked for me. +1. — Hafthor, Aug 23 '11 at 18:39

How to make a pager with MVCContrib and Razor?

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