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Mr. Lost
Mr. Lost

Reputation: 73

Pass html string to server side with Jquery Ajax

i have seen a lot of answers in this site that have helped me a lot but in this one i need to ask guys to help me out.

i have a textarea as a Html editor to pass html content to the server and append it to a newly created Html page( for user POST,etc), but jquery or ASP.NET does not accept the Html content passed by jquery through data: {}

--For Jquery: 

  $("#btnC").click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    //get the content of the div box 
    var HTML = $("#t").val();

    $.ajax({ url: "EditingTextarea.aspx/GetValue",
        type: "POST",
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        data: '{num: "' + HTML + '"}', // pass that text to the server as a correct JSON String
        success: function (msg) { alert(msg.d); },
        error: function (type) { alert("ERROR!!" + type.responseText); }

    });

and Server-Side ASP.NET:

[WebMethod]
public static string GetValue(string num)
{ 
    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("C://HTMLTemplate1.html", true);
    sw.WriteLine(num);
    sw.Close();       
return num;//return what was sent from the client to the client again 
}//end get value

Jquery part gives me an error: Invalid object passed in and error in System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavascriptObjectDeserializer.

It's like jquery doesnt accept string with html content.what is wrong with my code ?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 42716

Answers (3)

user3942119
user3942119

Reputation: 41

Make sure JSON.stringify,dataType: "json" and, contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", is there in the ajax call.

 [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult ActionMethod(string para1, string para2, string para3, string htmlstring)
        {
               retrun view();
        }
   $.ajax({

            url: '/Controller/ActionMethod',
            type: "POST",
            data: JSON.stringify({
                para1: titletext,
                para2: datetext,
                para3: interchangeNbr.toString(),
                htmlstring : messageText.toString()
            }),
            dataType: "json",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            cache: false,
            success: function successFunc(data) {

            },
            error: function errorFunc(jqXHR) {
                $('#errroMessageDiv').css({ 'color': 'red' }).text(jqXHR.message).show();
            }
        });

Upvotes: 3

Subin Jacob
Subin Jacob

Reputation: 4864

Pass it like this

JSON.stringify({'num':HTML});

You have to stringify the content to JSON properly. HTML may contain synataxes that would make the JSON notation invalid.

var dataToSend = JSON.stringify({'num':HTML});
     $.ajax({ url: "EditingTextarea.aspx/GetValue",
            type: "POST",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",
            data: dataToSend , // pass that text to the server as a correct JSON String
            success: function (msg) { alert(msg.d); },
            error: function (type) { alert("ERROR!!" + type.responseText); }

        });

Upvotes: 19

Bibhu
Bibhu

Reputation: 4081

You can use this

var HTML = escape($("#t").val());

and on server end you can decode it to get the html string as

HttpUtility.UrlDecode(num, System.Text.Encoding.Default);

Upvotes: 11

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