Custom Control Property returning "Encoded" text from textarea box

[Earl Teigrob]

I have a custom control that creates a textarea child control and diplays it
to the user. The control is defined as follows

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTextArea TextArea1;

I have a property called "Text" that sets and getis it value, as follows:

[Bindable(true),

Category("Appearance"),

DefaultValue("")]

public string Text

{


get

{

EnsureChildControls();

return TextArea1.Value;

}

set

{

EnsureChildControls();

TextArea1.Value = value;

}

}

The problem is that when I gete the contents of the textarea bos from the
"Text" property, if the text contains html tags, they are changed into their
html equivelents (< becomes &lt etc)

Why is this happening ahd how can I stop it???

Thanks

Earl

 

[Natty Gur]

Hi,

you can use Server.HtmlDecode() in your property:

<code>
return Server.HtmlDecode(TextArea1.Value);
</code>

Natty Gur[MVP]

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[Earl Teigrob]

Thanks Natty,