(Un)Escape html rendering

[Frans]

Hi,

I am creating my own MVC Helper to wrap the Form component (serverside).

Inside that helper, I do something like this to create a custom html input element event:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
string strSaveCall = $"SaveDetailItem(null, '{_formName}', '{_saveActionUrl}', null, null);"; // '/Home/Save'
string onkeyDownEvt = _htmlHelper.Raw("if (event.keyCode == 13) { " + strSaveCall + " }").ToHtmlString();

This renders the following html:

<input type="text" id="LastName" name="LastName" ...
onkeydown="if (event.keyCode == 13) { SaveDetailItem(null, &amp;#39;myForm&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;/Home/Save&amp;#39;, null, null); }" ....">

But I would like to see it rendered without the escaped characaters, like:
if (event.keyCode == 13) { SaveDetailItem(null, 'myForm', '/Home/Save', null, null); }"

How can I achieve this ?

Martin

 

[Neli]

Hello Frans,

The ToHtmlString method returns an HTML-encoded string. You could try to decode it by using the HttpUtility/WebUtility HtmlDecode and or HtmlEncode to decode/encode the HTML string. You could check also the StackOverflow threads linked below where a similar issue is discussed:

- https://stackoverflow.com/a/15247805

 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23783679/how-to-convert-string-to-html-safe-string

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17682379/unable-to-html-decode-an-encoded-mvchtmlstring

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/122641/how-can-i-decode-html-characters-in-c

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Neli
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