Rad Editor is mangling some of my HTML in a link. Turning ~#~variable_name~#~ into %7E#%variable_name%7E#%

[Eve]

Hopefully someone at Telerik can help me with this.    We use email templates for auto-responders on many of our forms.   Inside of these templates we do things like this:

<a href="http://~#~CURRENT_SERVER~#~/_blogcontrol/a.aspx?~#~approveURL~#~">APPROVE THIS COMMENT</a>

When the emails are sent out we parse the template and replace these variables with appropriate data.    I have discovered that RadEditor is turning all of our ~#~ tags into %7E#%7E.  

I know that this has something to do with encoding but I don't know how to turn it off.   I have already played around with the ContentFilters attribute...specifically I have tried setting it in codebehind like this:

txtEmailContent.ContentFilters = Telerik.Web.UI.EditorFilters.None;

I thought this would disable all filtering but the editor is still mangling my code.     What can I do to stop this behavior?

Thanks,
Eve 
Senior Designer

[Rumen]

Hi Eve,

This is a behavior of the Rich Text Editing engine of Firefox that the content area of RadEditor uses to render and produce HTML content.

The browser encoding is handled by the ConvertToXhtml filter and if you enable it you will not experience this problem. You can test your link in the following demo: Built-in Content Filters.

If the ConvertToXhtml filter is disabled on purpose in your application, you can easily solve the problem by implementing a custom content filter as the following one which will replace the %7E string with the ~ tilde symbol, e.g.

<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad"></telerik:RadEditor>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function OnClientLoad(editor, args) {

        TildeFilter = function () {
            TildeFilter.initializeBase(this);
            this.set_isDom(false);
            this.set_enabled(true);
            this.set_name("RadEditor Bracket filter");
            this.set_description("RadEditor Bracket filter description");
        }
        TildeFilter.prototype = {
            getHtmlContent: function (content) {

                newContent = content.replace(/%7E/g, "~");
                return newContent;
            }
        }
        TildeFilter.registerClass('TildeFilter', Telerik.Web.UI.Editor.Filter);
        editor.get_filtersManager().add(new TildeFilter());
    }
</script>

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[Eve]

Thanks honey!!! :)