Question

I’m using a ckeditor in my intranet.
I use it to save formated text, like links, for example.

The thing is, what I have in the ckeditor source is

<p>
this is the new <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a> we need to run.</p>

and what I see in the editor is

test(as a link)

What gets saved in the DB is

 <p>
    this is the new <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a> we need to run.</p>

which is correct.

But when I want to edit it on ckeditor, what I see is

<p> <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a></p>

and what I see as source is

<p>
        <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a></p>

I would like to see exactly the same when I edit it.

Anoter thing is, I’m using Html.Raw to display it in my index, but it shows me the html. I would like to see the rendered html.

So, if I save

<p>
    this is the new <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a> we need to run.</p>

I want to see

this is the new test(as link) we need to run

and not

<p>
        this is the new <a href="http://www.google.com">test</a> we need to run.</p>

Any ideas??
Rui Martins

Answer 1

Your problems are the not understanding of htmlentities.

Encoding HTML

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Decoding HTML

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

Example usage both

<?php

   $orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now";

   $a = htmlentities($orig);
   $b = html_entity_decode($a);

   echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now
   echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now

?>

Edit (Added asp.net equivalent)

Server.HtmlEncode("<your string>");

Server.HtmlDecode("&lt;your string&gt;");