how to pass url from controller / model to view

Question

I have a model that has a property like "SomeUrl", it's an absolute url with some parameters in it, something like this for example: http://www.someexternalsite.com/q?param1=value1&param2=value2

My view takes a List and I am trying to use these url's in an anchor tag like this:

<a href="@Model.SomeUrl">my link</a>

The url is being encoded and ends up coming out like this:

http://www.someexternalsite.com/q?param1=value1&amp;param2=value

How do I stop it from doing that?

ZippyV · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-28 18:21:15Z

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Not encoding the & would result in invalid html. In this case the html is correctly encoded. If you want to render a string not encoded use:

@Html.Raw(...)

answered Apr 28, 2012 at 18:21

ZippyV

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tzerb · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-28 19:54:38Z

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Change your link to this:

<a href="@Html.Raw(Model.SomeUrl)">my link</a>

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answered Apr 28, 2012 at 18:34

Abdul Qadir Memon

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