MVC TempData passing to Jquery

Question

I am trying to assign HTML to TempData as such:

     TempData["FilesUploaded"] = "<option value= '" +  file.FileName + "'>" + file.FileName + "</option>";

I need to get this value in Jquery. As such, I do the following:

    var val = '@TempData["FilesUploaded"]';

    alert(val);

What I am finding is that the characters are coming as such:

    &lt;option value= &#39;PS Report #36178.pdf&#39;&gt;PS Report #36178.pdf&lt;/option&gt;

I tried to do it enclose TempData in @Html.Raw(... but that did not work as well.

Here is what I tried:

    var val = '@Html.Raw((string)TempData["FilesUploaded"])';
    alert(val);

What is odd is that it doesn't work in that the alert doesn't even come up.

Now I read the last line. Can you post your version using Html.Raw? — Cristian Lupascu
– Cristian Lupascu, Commented Jan 31, 2013 at 21:11

Cristian Lupascu · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-10 06:58:34Z

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Use HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode to encode the string as JavaScript:

var val = '@Html.Raw(HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode((string)TempData["FilesUploaded"]))';

edited Jul 10, 2015 at 6:58

answered Jan 31, 2013 at 21:07

Cristian Lupascu

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Cristian Lupascu Over a year ago

@NatePat OK now I realized the problem. Html.Raw outputted the single quotes, which made the script invalid. The single quotes have to be replaced with \' in order for the output to be valid js

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