Question

Im doing a custom htmlhelper, its purpose is to build a ul, problem is that it returns encoded html and i cant get around it. I tried to use html.raw() with no success. Ideas?

HtmlHelper

public static MvcHtmlString TopMenu(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable<string> names)
{
    var ulTag = new TagBuilder("ul");

    foreach (var name in names)
    {
        var liTag = new TagBuilder("li");

        liTag.SetInnerText(string.Format("<img src='{0}' alt='alt' />{1}", name, name));
        ulTag.InnerHtml += liTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
    }

        return MvcHtmlString.Create(ulTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
}

My view

@Html.Raw(Html.TopMenu(CodeTesting.Models.NamesList.Names(20))) 

Answer 1

liTag.SetInnerText() escapes the text that you pass it.
You want to set liTag.InnerHtml.

Also, you need to HTML-escape name.