I'm trying to make a meta tag in my view based on data in my model...my view code looks like this:
<meta name="description" content="<%=Html.Encode(Model.MetaDescription) %>" />
But my output looks like this:
meta name="description" content="<%=Html.Encode(Model.MetaDescription) %>" />
What the heck am I doing wrong?
You are probably adding this meta tag to a <head> tag which is marked at runat="server". Try:
<meta name="description" content='<%=Html.Encode(Model.MetaDescription) %>' />
I don't have a clear idea about what the actual problem is, as I don't have the full source, but to workaround:
<meta name="description" content=<%= "\"" + Html.Encode(Model.MetaDescription) + "\"" %> />
Mehrdad's second solution works fine and renders a valid XHTML, but causes VS IDE to complain about the invalid syntax (it doesn't "see" the double quotes at design-time and thinks they are missing).
A better (working) syntax would be:
<meta name="description" content=<%= "" + Html.Encode(Model.MetaDescription) %> />
It seems like a bug in the MVC rendering engine, and the empty string in the beginning is a workaround...