Question

Here is my code

Controller

public ActionResult Sites()
{
    var viewModel =  new ViewModel();
    viewModel.currentSite.genComments =HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("Some string that</br>\r\n looks like this<br/>"); 
    return View(viewModel);
}

View:

@Html.EditorFor(v => v.currentSite.gencomments, Model.currentSite.gencomments, "gencomments")

I get an error saying that there are invalid characters in the path.
Any ideas or suggestions

Answer 1

Are you intending for the comments to specify the template name? It looks like you are calling this overload of EditorFor.

Try just

@Html.EditorFor(v => v.currentSite.gencomments, "gencomments")

To name the field, you can try this (no guarantees on this one though!):

@Html.EditorFor(v => v.currentSite.gencomments, "gencomments", "gencomments", null)