Writing HTML code inside variable in ASP.NET C# and Razor

Question

I'm new in ASP.NET C# and I have problems with some things.

In PHP, I can store HTML code inside a variable, for example:

$list = "<li>My List</li>";
echo "<ul>{$list}</ul>"; // write <ul><li>My List</li></ul>

I tried this in ASP.NET and Razor

string List = "<li>My List</li>";
<ul>@List</ul>

But ASP changes "<" and ">" to > and <.. You know any solution for this?

I have another question, can I insert variable inside a quotes like PHP?

echo "<ul>{$list}</ul>";

Answer 1

The Razor engine HTML encodes strings by default, as you have noticed. To avoid this behavior, just use Html.Raw():

<ul>@Html.Raw(List)</ul>

Edit

To render a variable within a string, I suppose you could use string.Format:

@{ var someVariable = "world"; }
@string.Format("<div>hello {0}</div>", someVariable)

Although that seems like overkill (at least for this example) when you can just write:

<div>hello @someVariable</div>