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Arnis Lapsa
Arnis Lapsa

Reputation: 47627

Why Spark viewengine renders unnecessary (or unexpected) quotes?

If i add pageBaseType="Spark.Web.Mvc.SparkView" in my web.config (necessary to fix intellisense), somehow it does not render links (probably not only) correctly anymore.

This is how it's supposed to look like (and does, if page base type is not specified)=>

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This is how it looks when base type is specified=>

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Chrome source viewer shows identical page source code for both cases=>

<body> 
    <div class="content"> 
        <div class="navigation"> 
            <a href="/Employee/List">Employees</a> 
            <a href="/Product/List">Products</a> 
            <a href="/Store/List">Stores</a> 
            <div class="navigation_title"> 
                Navigation</div> 
        </div> 
        <div class="main"> 
            <div class="content"> 
<h2>Employees</h2>Nothing found...
&lt;a href=&quot;/Employee/Create&quot;&gt;Create&lt;/a&gt;           
            </div> 
        </div> 
    </div> 
</body>

Developer tools does not=>

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So - why my link gets htmlencoded (if that's what happens)? If it's default behavior, then how to render raw html?

Using latest Spark version, rebuilt with Asp.Net Mvc2 RC assemblies.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 312

Answers (2)

Nick Daniels
Nick Daniels

Reputation: 922

You have 2 different problems here. First the encoding issue. Second the Quotes, those are ALL Chrome.
Chrome has enclosed your text and link inside a CDATA node. Something about your page has triggered it to render XHTML and as such it won't allow that text inside a DIV. Usually the XHTML namespace on the HTML element does it or your app is sending pages with the XHTML MIME type. But I have found testing in Chrome that other things about a page will kick it into XHTML mode like self ending tags and the like.

Upvotes: 1

Shay Erlichmen
Shay Erlichmen

Reputation: 31928

is automaticEncoding set to true in the web.config?

<spark>
  <pages automaticEncoding="false">
  </pages>
</spark>

Upvotes: 1

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