Question

Im having trouble with mvc decoding my encoded HTML string when I try to display it in textarea, I tried this:

    <textarea rows="3" cols="20" style="width: 80%; height:150px; margin:10px 0px;">
      &lt;iframe allowtransparency='true'...
    </textarea>

and this:

<textarea rows="3" cols="20" style="width: 80%; height:150px; margin:10px 0px;">
    @(Html.Raw("&lt;iframe allowtransparency='true'..."))
</textarea>

But it still displays like <iframe allowtransparency='true' instead of <iframe allowtransparency='true'...

Answer 1

Try escaping your ampersands.
It’ll look like

<textarea>
    &amp;lt;iframe ...
</textarea>