I am using the following to render a partial view to a string...
protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
viewName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
ViewData.Model = model;
using (var sw = new StringWriter())
{
ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);
var viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
However it returns the html with strange tags like this below... (I have included a small section as its a big view)
<$A$><div</$A$><$B$> class="modal hide fade"</$B$><$C$> id="dialog"</$C$><$D$>
This happens throughout the HTML. This section should look like this...
<div class="modal hide fade" id="dialog" style="display: none;">