asp.net mvc - display rich text code in View

Question

How would you do to display rendered html code like this <b>short article</b> and display it as bold short articl in an ASP.net mvc 3 view ?

I tried out @System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(item.short_article); but doesn' t work

thanks

Answer 1

You can use HtmlHelper.Raw. It will return markup that is not HTML encoded.

You need to be aware however of the security risks when outputting HTML like this. If a user enters some HTML code that contains Javascript and save it to the database, your page will render and execute this script.

If there is a risk of users entering malicious data for your short_article field you should strip their input based on a whitelist of tags you want to allow.