ASP.NET MVC Html.Encode - New lines

Question

Html.Encode seems to simply call HttpUtility.HtmlEncode to replace a few html specific characters with their escape sequences.

However this

Answer 1

If you use Razor you can do:

@MvcHtmlString.Create(Html.Encode(strToEncode).Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
"))

in your view, or in your controller:

HttpServerUtility httpUtil = new HttpServerUtility();
MvcHtmlString encoded = httpUtil.HtmlEncode(strToEncode).Replace(Environment.NewLine, "
");

I have not tested the controller method, but it should work the same way.