Mvc 3 - Html Helper

I was going to use declarative HTML helpers, but then found out that they have not been implemented in a release of MVC 3. I'm trying to get old HTML helpers to work with the follo

Solution 1:

David Neale is right, but in ASP.NET MVC 3 you should actually return an instance of HtmlString, not MvcHtmlString (both will work, though):

privatestaticHtmlStringGenerateSingleOptionHTML(Question q)
{    
    String ret ="";

    for(int i =0; i <3; i++)
    {
        ret +=String.Format("<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"Q"+ i 
            +"\" value=\""+ i +"\" name=\"Q"+ i +"\" />"+ q.Body+"</li>");
    }

    return new HtmlString(ret);
}

Solution 2:

You need to return an instance of MvcHtmlString. Your output string is getting encoded.

The MvcHtmlString object will be treated as already encoded during rendering (I assume you're using the <%: %> syntax instead of <%= %> to inject the HTML into the page).

return MvcHtmlString.Create(ret);