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  YashaJan2011

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  string in MVC

  Feb 04, 2012 07:00 AM|LINK

  Hi,

     I want to use different colors in a string which goes inside a dataTable.  i'm setting everything in a controller and passing it to View.

  If i set  aRow as my datarow then I want to use:

  aRow[i] = String.Format("<font color='#CCCCFF'>{0}</font> - ({1})", strOne, strTwo);

  but somehow this is not working in MVC

  
  

  Thank you in advance
  

  Yasha
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  francesco ab...

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  Re: string in MVC

  Feb 04, 2012 10:42 AM|LINK

  Please notice the font tag is deprecated...you shoud not use it. However you can use just a <span> tag where you specify the color as in the font tag. 

  If you return a simple string into an Mvc View it is automatically Html encoded. so the user will simply see the original html tags instead of a colred string.

  To avoid that the string is encoded use the MvcHtmlString type in the controller where you build the string. It is easy just build you string, say "MyString" normally, and then convert it into an MvcHtnlString this way:

  MvcHtmlString.Create(MyString)

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  dLcreations

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  Re: string in MVC

  Feb 04, 2012 11:42 AM|LINK

  You can Go Like This

  @Html.Grid(Model.ExampleList)
       .RowAttributes(row => new Hash(@class => row.Item.IsFoo ? "redclass" : "normalclass"))
       .Columns(c =>
       {
           ...
       })
  
  
  and

  column.For(p => p.a).Atributes(p=>
  {
      if (p.Item.Status == "Active")
      {
          return new Dictionary<string, object>{{ "style", "color:green" }};
      }
      else if (p.Item.Status == "In-active")
      {
          return new Dictionary<string, object>{{ "style", "color:red" }};
      }
      return new Dictionary<string, object>();
  });
  
  

  dLcreations'