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Asked: 2026-06-15T05:34:09+00:00

I’ve got this simple table. One field inside it is called Content with the

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I’ve got this simple table. One field inside it is called Content with the Nvarchar(max).

If I edit that field directly in the database using SQL Server Management, adding the following text below, it stores it fine.

Text:

Do you open the menu at a restaurant ever expanding multi-cultural tourist hub, Chinatown has a lot to offer to meet your culinary desires, from China and beyond.<br /></br>This tour will be the first in a series the food.

However if I try to submit the same text above using an ASPX page webform to the database, I get the error below, I assume because of the 2 <br /> code

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the
client (tbTourDetails=”…nd beyond.
This tour…”).

How can I get around this so I can have a webform that submit partly HTML to my database?

Regards
Tea

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since you are trying to store html code, you need to add requestValidationMode=”2.0″ to the httpRuntime configuration section of the web.config.

    <httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />

    Now encode it before storing:

    String TestString = "This is a <Test String>.";
String EncodedString = Server.HtmlEncode(TestString);

    And decode it for displaying as a text:

    Label1.Text = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(dbValue);

    References:
    HtmlEncode Method
    HtmlEncode, HtmlDecode

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