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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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()) %>

Answer 3

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