Question

I am passing string having special characters in to contollers action in asp.net mvc3. In action its taking string data as null.

var url = '@Url.Action("SetData", "Home")';
var data = { Text: a, Data: urlData };
               $.post(url, data, function (result) {
                });

Controllers Action:

 public ActionResult SetData(string Text, string Data)
        {
        }

My String data is :

Content Belongs To Tseries and Eros Entertainment Song : Tum Ho Movie : Rockstar Singer : Mohit Chauhan & Suzzane D' Mello Music By : AR Rahman Rockstar is a

How can i pass string having special characters?

Answer 1

The urlData variable contains HTML encoded entities. You need to HTML decode it first, like this:

var data = {
    text: 'some text',
    data: $('<div/>').html(urlData).text()
};

Or maybe change the way you are retrieving the contents of this variable. I think this is where your problem lies essentially.

or on the server side if you prefer (the first solution is recommended):

public ActionResult SetData(string text, string data)
{
    var decodedData = Server.HtmlDecode(data);
    ...
}