Render HTML string on aspx

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Hello folks ,

I am stuck with this issue. I am fetching a HTML string from database and I want to display it in a panel on aspx page.

My string is like <html> <body> HTML Code</body> </html> .

I want to display this HTML in a window/ panel on aspx

Can someone please suggest any way ? Any help would be appreciated .

Thanks,

Posted 2-Aug-12 6:59am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Aug-12 13:07pm

What's the problem? Perhaps you don't know how to escape all those "<" and ">"?
--SA

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goutamns · Answer 1 · 2012-08-02T18:44:00

Solution 2

VB

step 1: make the panel control runat="server"
step 2:remove html and body tag from your string
step 3:using panel id in .cs file id.controls.add(new LiteralControl(your string))

and if you want to display in iframe then use id.innerHtml=your string

Posted 2-Aug-12 18:44pm

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Updated 2-Aug-12 18:48pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2012-08-02T07:12:00

As I have not idea what is your difficulties, I just assumed you have one of the most common problem: encoding of HTML entities. If so, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/73z22y6h.aspx[^].

See the class System.Web.HttpUtility:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httputility.aspx[^].

If you have other problems, please don't blame me: you did not tell us about them. You are welcome to ask other questions.

[EDIT, after OP's clarification]

Perhaps iframe is not what you need, because its content is external to your HTML file, is loaded from an external file. You would need to create a separate HTML file with the content taken from your database, generate iframe element with the attribute src, set the attribute's value to the name of the generated file. This would be too ugly.

You should better use any block element like div and set its attribute innerHTML to the content taken from your database. It cannot be the whole HTML file though, only the HTML fragment which is valid under the div element.

If both solutions are not good enough for you (which can happen), you should review your design. After all, your requirement is not to use iframe or something certain. You just need certain rendering applied dynamically.

—SA