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Thursday, January 1, 2015 11:26 AM

I sending emails to users which have a dynamic link in the body.

It is ugly and does not look very professional.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

@{
    
    string link = "http://www.blahblah.com";
    
    string text = String.Format("click on this link here {0}", link);

    var url = Html.Raw("<a href=@link> here </a>");

    string textrev = "click on this link " + url;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
@text
        <br/>
@textrev
    
    </body>
</html>

click on this link http://www.blahblah.com
click on this link <a href=@link> link </a>

What I need is:

click on this link here

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Friday, January 2, 2015 7:18 AM ✅Answered

Html.Raw is used for rendering HTML. It shouldn't be used in your code block.

@{
    string link = "http://www.blahblah.com";
    string text = String.Format("click on this link here {0}", link);
    var url = "<a href=\"" + link + "\"> here </a>";
    string textrev = "click on this link " + url;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
    @text
        <br/>
    @Html.Raw(textrev)
    
    </body>
</html>

Friday, January 2, 2015 1:03 PM ✅Answered

VS stumbles on Html.Raw in the body of the WebMail helper.

Html.Raw is not required when you pass HTML to the body of a mail message. It is only required when you need to display HTML as HTML in a Razor (.cshtml or .vbhtml) file.

Thursday, January 1, 2015 12:54 PM

Hello,

try the following:

@{
    string link = "click <a href=http://www.blahblah.com>here</a>";
    var res = Html.Raw(link);
}

@res

Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:16 PM

The question would be, why didn't you try to render it directly inside the HTML markup itself instead of creating variables and then writing those variables in the HTML and so on. I would've tried writing this logic as follows, 

@{
   // Layout and other Page properties here
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Click <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">here</></p>
    </body>
</html>

And if you're going to create any dynamic string to be sent, such as Tokens then you can simply just append that variable to the link. More like this, 

@{
   var token = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Click <a href="http://www.blahblah.com/page?token=@token">here</></p>
    </body>
</html>

Now the token that is generated would be passed down and rendered into the HTML. To do that using the String.Format method, you might be writing something that looks like this code, 

var token = Guid.NewGuid();

String.Format("Your token is {0}", token);

// or for a URL string

String.Format("http://www.example.com/page?token={0}", token);

The second method for generating the URL using this method can be tested at this fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/gW3g3M 

Good luck!

Thursday, January 1, 2015 3:05 PM

I am sending an email as per:

WebMail.Send(
    to: emailto,
    subject: emailsubject,
    body: emailbody);

@ayanmesut...

the <a> tag has double quotes around the link. When I escape them with double quotes, Visual Studio does not like the results.

@afzaal.ahmad....

The url is very long, so I use a third party who shortens it. The end result is http://tiny.url/blahblah

Prefer to have the entire link wrapped up in an <a> tag, so it is out of view.

Everything is send by email, and I hope that I could send the string emailbody (see above) and that the email is rendered just showing here

Friday, January 2, 2015 12:28 PM

VS stumbles on Html.Raw in the body of the WebMail helper.

But it works like this:

 WebMail.Send(
                to: emailto,
                subject: invoice,
                body: textrev);

Thanks.

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