Question

I’m having trouble figuring out the correct syntax to integrate an emdash into a string in Razor. Here’s the idea:

@( string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.DemandClassCode) ? string.Empty : Model.DemandClassCode — Model.DemandClassName)

I’m getting a ReSharper error message in the editor:

Cannot resolve symbol ‘mdash’

Answer 1

Razor automatically HTML encodes all the output which is not HtmlString.

Use Html.Raw helper if you don’t want encoding:

@Html.Raw(isValid ? "" : string.Format("{0} — {1}", @Model.Var1, @Model.Var2) )

Or create the HtmlString explicitly:

@MvcHtmlString.Create(isValid ? "" : string.Format("{0} — {1}", @Model.Var1, @Model.Var2))

And with your new sample:

@Html.Raw(string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.DemandClassCode) ? string.Empty : string.Format("{0} — {1}", Model.DemandClassCode, Model.DemandClassName))

Or with using if:

@if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.DemandClassCode))
{
    @string.Empty
}
else
{
    <text>@Model.DemandClassCode &mdash; @Model.DemandClassName</text>
}