Html Text Box Handling Special Characters

[Daniel]

Hi,  
     I use stored procedures and sql queries to get data for my report parameters and the report data. The idea is to let user select from dropdown values and filter the required data. In one of the html styled text box, I need to present the user selected multi-values of a dropdown...

I used this..

Schools: {Join('; ', Parameters.SchoolNames.Value)}

that just works fine....

But the problem is the parameter values some times may contain '&'.. Thats throwing me an error.. Then I realised that I have to escape it for HTML Text box....

How can I do this in my scenario.. I have tried, the following with no luck..

Schools: {Join('; ',Replace(Parameters.SchoolNames.Value,'&','&'))}     

[Nasko]

Hello Daniel,

The correct approach to escape the HTML special characters would be to send the data fields/report parameters to a user function which will escape the HTML special characters:

{MyUserFunction(Join('; ', Parameters.SchoolNames.Value))}

For more information, please check the User Functions help article, as well as the HtmlEncode Method MSDN page.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

 

 

[Gurmeet Singh]

Hi Team

We are also facing the same issue while generating the pdf from telerik reporting, with a special character {. We have tried htmlencode but it has no impact on the character {  and }.

[Nasko]

Hello Gurmeet,

In case you are using Embedded Expressions in the HtmlTextBox item, curly brackets - { } should be escaped with double brackets like this: {{ or }}.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik