Escaping single quote from an MVC 3 Razor View variable

Question

I have a variable within item.Name that contains the string \"It\'s Tuesday!\". To alleviate javascript errors, in the c# controller I have already escaped this single quot

Answer 1

The following can be used to prevent encoding of the output again. This does however rely on you properly dealing with it yourself.

MVCHTMLString

@MvcHtmlString.Create(yourString)

Answer 2

I prefer to make my views dumb. Therefore, I'd have a property called something like 'Display' or 'DisplayName' which handled the escaping for the view.

Answer 3

Create an extension method you can use or simply encode directly. I would not encode prior to the view getting it unless you have a separate property in your viewmodel meant for this (not a bad idea()

This is not tested but something along these lines

public static class HtmlExtensions

{
    public static IHtmlString JavaScriptEncode(this HtmlHelper html, string item)
    {
        return new HtmlString(HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode(item));
    }
}

You can then just call @Html.JavaScriptEncode(yourProperty) from the view or simply reference your encoded property name.