what is the equivalent of the "literal" tag in asp.net mvc

Question

i am migrating a website from asp.net to asp.net mvc

in the asp.net site there are many places where they have "literal" tags and the server generates a bunch of html and sticks in in the literal tag.

what is the equivalent of doign this in asp.net mvc. Should i shove this in ViewData?

Answer 1

The equivalent is to not make the same bad design choices the original developer made.

But, since we live in the real world, you'd shove their strings-which-contain-html into the presentation model for a particular page and then write it to the response stream.

In your Model:

public class MyPageModel
{
  public string HolyCrapItsHtml {get;set;}
}

In your controller:

public ActionResult MyPage()
{
  return View(new MyPageModel
         {HolyCrapItsHtml = OldCode.GetHtmlICantBelieveIt()});
}

And in your page:

<div>
  In the olden days, we'd concatenate our webpages together from strings like:
  <%= Model.HolyCrapItsHtml %>
</div>