MVC 3 Display HTML inside a ValidationSummary

Question

I am trying to display a strong tag inside a validation summary but it encodes it and does not display properly.

@Html.ValidationSummary(false, \"E         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way:

@if (!ViewData.ModelState.IsValid)
{
@Html.Raw(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(Html.ValidationSummary(false, "ERROR:The form is not valid!").ToHtmlString()))

}