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ASP.Net MVC - Displaying text with newlines in

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?

Solution

  • 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.