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copied!<p>Old question, but I was here as I needed a similar solution. </p> <p>Assuming the question is actually: How to generate a comma separated list of HtmlString (MvcHtmlString) (as in the question title and assuming the author/books is just extra detail and not the crux of the issue)</p> <p>You <em>could</em> use a display helper, but that would not be very reusable (separate helper for each property). </p> <p>My first attempt ended with encoded output, so came up with this helper (add it directly to the cshtml) :</p> <pre><code>@helper CommaSeparatedHtmlStringList(IEnumerable<MvcHtmlString> list) { @Html.Raw(list.First()) foreach (var item in list.Skip(1)) { @Html.Raw(", ") @Html.Raw(item) } } </code></pre> <p>use with:</p> <pre><code>@CommaSeparatedHtmlStringList(books.Select(book=>Html.ActionLink(book.Title, "Action"))) </code></pre> <p>I then started to convert to an html helper, so you could <code>@Html.CommaSeparate(books.Selected...</code>) then realised you just need the @Html.Raw part to output HtmlStrings / MvcHtmlStrings, ie:</p> <pre><code>@Html.Raw(string.Join(", ", books.Select(book=>html.ActionLink... </code></pre> <p>If you still prefer a code behind helper:</p> <pre><code>public static MvcHtmlString CommaSeparated(this HtmlHelper helper, IEnumerable<MvcHtmlString> list) { return new MvcHtmlString(string.Join(", ", list)); } </code></pre> <p>use with</p> <pre><code>@Html.CommaSeparated(books.Select(book=>html.ActionLink(book.Title, "Action")))) </code></pre>

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