How to make Razor not display special characters as html - html

Question

The page I'm working on displays content from a database in readonly input box. My problem is that it's displaying any special characters as the html code (ie: & displays as &). How do you get the code to display properly?
I'm using QuerySingle to connect to the database, don't know if that makes a difference. I'm new to using Razor. Any help is much appreciated.
Code in question:
var queryloan = "SELECT * FROM loans WHERE LoanId = #0";
var queryloandata = db.QuerySingle(queryloan, queryformstatus_submitted.doc_loanid);
<form class="jotform-form" action="submit-form.cshtml?isadmin=#(isadmin)&loanid=#(loanid)" method="post" name="form_30905105572145" id="30905105572145" accept-charset="utf-8">
<input type="hidden" name="formID" value="30905105572145" />
<input type="hidden" name="doc_id" value="#doc_id" />
<div class="form-all">
<ul class="form-section">
<li id="cid_3" class="form-input-wide">
<div class="form-header-group">
<h2 id="header_3" class="form-header">
Borrower Sources & Uses Summary
</h2>
#if (queryformstatus_submitted.doc_approval == "Pending Approval" || queryformstatus_submitted.doc_approval == "Approved")
{
<text><br />
<br />
<div class="error">
This form has already been submitted and cannot be edited. It is for reference only.</div></text>
}
#if(userid != queryformstatus_submitted.doc_userid){
<text><br/><br/><div class="error">You may not edit this form. It is for reference only.</div></text>
}
</div>
</li>
<li class="form-line" id="id_4">
<label class="form-label-left" id="label_4" for="input_4">
1. Property Name:
</label>
<div id="cid_4" class="form-input">
<input type="text" class=" form-textbox" id="input_4" name="q4_1Property" size="40" value="#Helpers.checkEmptyPreFill(queryinputvalue,"q4_1Property",queryloandata.LoanName)"/>
</div>
</li>
I'm not sure but I believe it may be something in this helper function that's causing the html code:
#helper checkEmptyPreFill(IEnumerable<dynamic> queryinputvalue, string field_id, string defaultval, int cloned = 0) {
var reqValue = queryinputvalue.FirstOrDefault(r => r.field_name.Equals(field_id));
var return_value = "";
if(reqValue != null){
return_value = reqValue.field_data;
} else {
return_value = defaultval;
}
if(cloned == 1){
return_value = "";
}
#return_value
}

Answer 1

The razor helper returns a HelperResult object so you'll have to convert it to a string before you can call HtmlDecode on it. Replace:
#Helpers.checkEmptyPreFill(queryinputvalue,"q4_1Property",queryloandata.LoanName)
with the following:
#HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(Helpers.checkEmptyPreFill(queryinputvalue,"q4_1Property",queryloandata.LoanName).ToString())
I would also suggest that you move some of the logic and data access code out of your view and into a controller but this should give you the result that you'e after.