Replace line break characters with <br /> in ASP.NET MVC Razor view

Question

I have a textarea control that accepts input. I am trying to later render that text to a view by simply using:

@Model.CommentText

This is properly encoding any values. However, I want to replace the line break characters with <br /> and I can't find a way to make sure that the new br tags don't get encoded. I have tried using HtmlString but haven't had any luck yet.

Answer 1

Use the CSS white-space property instead of opening yourself up to XSS vulnerabilities!

<span style="white-space: pre-line">@Model.CommentText</span>