Question

In my MVC 3 application i need to be able to edit text with formatting (ex bold text, linebreaks eks.), and send that edited text to a pdf document.
What i want is to put that formated text inside of a MSSQL DB, and be able to retrive it when needed.

Right now i am stuck at basics, when i am saving text to DB, db returns a long text string instead of formated text. Are there any other approaches of doing it?

For formatting i am using CKeditor library.

Maybe there are easier ways of doing it?

Answer 1

if i am not wrong you can use html.raw helper to get the string in html . then store it in database. but using html.Raw, it will lead to security loops. user may do XSS attacks.
you can use @Html.Raw(), with AntiForgeryTokens.

var someText = "<b>Hello World</b> blahblah"; 
@Html.Raw(someText);

Html.Raw() , Html.AntiForgeryToken