Trying to pass line-break element to SPAN element gets encoded

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_{Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:29 PM}

Sorry if this seems like a stupid question and it probably is. But in VSWeb 2012 I am constructing a string that will appear in a SPAN element. I wish to pass <br> to allow line breaks to appear in the browser. Like so...

Message += lst.Item("list_id") & " " & lst.Item("list_api_identifier") & lst.Item("list_description") & "<br>"

Displaying the Message in Razor view as @Message, the <br> element is getting encoded to <br> in the page source.

How do I allow the unencoded <br> to pass through to the page source?

(yea I know it is VB...please no flames)

Thanks

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_{Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:34 AM ✅Answered}

OK here is an update. After trying to pass \r\n to also create a line-break in a span (which did not work either), I finally tried using vbCrLf a Visual Basic constant for Carriage Return/Line-Feed and now my text displays nicely formatted with line breaks.

Thanks for the reply

_{Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:34 AM}

try below 

<span style="white-space: pre-line">@Message</span>

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

_{Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:03 AM}

Thanks for the repy damithSL.

I just tried that and here is what the page source looks like...

<span style="white-space: pre-line">1656 TEST_USERSTest Users&lt;br/&gt;1331 fishing2013Fishing Enthusiasts&lt;

I guess it didn't work.