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

asp.net, asp.net-mvc, c#, razor

Solution

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>

Problem

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 `&gt;` and `&lt;`.. You know any solution for this? I have another question, can I insert variable inside a quotes like PHP? ``` echo "<ul>{$list}</ul>"; ```

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