Send HTML string with MVC Form Post

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We have MVC an application. we want to offer our customers to enter html texts for use in document generation. For this purpose we have included CK Editor. CK has a function to return the html. We want to 'encode' this Html, so we can place it in an input field that will be included in a form post.

What JavaScript function(s) can we use to convert the Html string to a format that we can send with the formpost. The form post is done via AJAX.

Update: In an other post we found this function:

function htmlEscape(str) {
    return String(str)
        .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
        .replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
        .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
        .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
        .replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
 }

It looks like this will do the trick, but are there any build-in or JQuery functions that will do this?

@Exception: That is exactly what we want to do, but first it has to go from the client machine to the server in the form post — k.c.
– k.c., Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 7:54
yes..so..you can save exact html in database from client machine to database... — Kartikeya Khosla
– Kartikeya Khosla, Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 7:55
you can post, but what is your exact problem, if it is not reaching to your controller then you have to palce [AllowHtml] attribute to your controller method — Dasarp
– Dasarp, Commented Aug 12, 2014 at 7:56

Aelios · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-11 10:46:19Z

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You can give validate input(false) for your post method to allow ck editor content in the class object:

[HttpPost]   
[ValidateInput(false)]  

public ActionResult SaveArticle(ArticleModel model)
{
    return view();
}

In M V C 3 you can also define your model property with html content as [Allow Html]

public class Article Model 
{
    [AllowHtml]

    public string Some Property { get; set; }

    public string Some Other Property { get; set; }
}

edited Jan 11, 2016 at 10:46

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answered Aug 12, 2014 at 9:23

Henry Chettiar

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k.c. Over a year ago

The question deals with the CLIENT/BROWSER side part. I'm looking for a javascript function that will take a Html string and will encoded it, so it can be set as the value of a hidden field. On the server we can use Server.HtmlDecode to reproduce the sent HTML that is not the problem

k.c. Over a year ago

[ValidateInput(false)] works. The [Allow Html] does not, as we use the form collection at various places. This is covered in the following post: stackoverflow.com/questions/4861927/… The points are yours.

Henry Chettiar · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-12 10:11:39Z

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Why do you want to do it the long cut way by manually replacing the special characters and pass it in a hidden field?.. You can directly post the html content with your property on normal submit button by declaring the post method with validateinput(false)

answered Aug 12, 2014 at 10:11

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Niranjan Singh Over a year ago

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