Is it possible to display raw Html from database in ASP.NET MVC 3?

Question

I have a table in my db where one of the properties is an Html page (without the html, head and body tags), and I intend to put it in the middle of one of my views - say, I

Answer 1

You can also return a HTMLString and Razor will output the correct formatting, for example.

@Html.GetSomeHtml()

public static HtmlString GetSomeHtml()
{
    var Data = "abc<br/>123";
    return new HtmlString(Data);
}

This will allow you to display HTML

Answer 2

All you need is: @Html.Raw(yourEncodedHtmlFromYouDatabase)

I'm assuming that the html in the database has been properly sanitized (or at least from a reliable source), because if not, you could be opening yourself up to cross-site scripting attacks.

The reason your approach didn't work is that Razor HTML-encodes output by default (every time you use @ to display something). Html.Raw tells Razor that you trust the HTML and you want to display it without encoding it (as it's already raw HTML).