Hello Readers, sometimes it happens that
you have saved text value with HTML tags in the database and when you fetch it to the view,
they appear at it is. To decode those HTML tags, we will use HtmlDecode method of HttpUtility class.
This class resides in System.Web
namespace.
To understand this concept, we will take
very short example code. I am using Visual
Studio 2015 IDE and ASP.NET MVC.
Here I am considering that you are aware of
basic knowledge of creating controller and views in MVC.
Steps:
Open Visual Studio IDE, File Menu -> New option -> Project
option.
Select ASP.NET
Web Application under Web
template.
Give a meaningful name to project as per
your desire. Select location. Press OK
button.
Select MVC
template. Press OK.
Go to your desired controller in which you
have to work. For example, here I am taking HomeController.
Create an action method of any name. here I am
giving name Index2.
The code is –
public ActionResult
Index2()
{
ViewBag.msg = "This
is <b> Bold </b> Text and color is <font
color='red'><b>Red</b></font> ";
return
View();
}
ViewBag is a dynamic property through which we can carry data from
controller to view.
msg is a variable of ViewBag.
Here i have taken ViewBag for text containing HTML tags. you will fetch data from database record and take into the view by using any method like Model property etc.
Here i have taken ViewBag for text containing HTML tags. you will fetch data from database record and take into the view by using any method like Model property etc.
Right click on method name and Add view.
Choose Empty template and click on Add button
Code inside body tag of View-
<body>
<div>
@ViewBag.msg
<br /><br />
@Html.Raw(System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(ViewBag.msg))
</div>
</body>
Save the project and run it. You will get
following output in the browser-
First message is without decoding and
second one is with decoding.
I hope this article is helpful for you.
Happy coding.
Rudra Pratap Singh
Software Engineer
singhrudrapratap29@gmail.com
rudrapratapsingh29@rediffmail.com
