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With the Razor View Engine, anytime you output a string directly to the page, it's HTML encoded. e.g.: @"Hello World" will actually get output to the page as: &lt;p&gt;Hello World &lt;/p&gt; Which would show up in the browser as: Hello World Here's the problem though, when creating Html helpers, till now, with the old aspx view engine I would just return a string, and output that to the browser: <%= Html.MyCoolHelperMethod(); %> So my question is basically this. Do I do this: public static IHtmlString MyCoolHelperMethod(this HtmlHelper helper) { return new helper.Raw("Hello World"); } in which case I can just do this in my cshtml: @Html.MyCoolHelperMethod(); or do I do this: public static string MyCoolHelperMethod(this HtmlHelper helper) { return "Hello World"; } in which case I need to do the work in my cshtml: @Html.Raw(Html.MyCoolHelperMethod()); Obviously the first approach makes the view look a lot cleaner, but I'm just wondering if the common pattern is in fact for helpers to return an IHtmlString and I've been doing it wrong in the past.

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