Contents tagged with HTML

Customizing Body Summary in Orchard

ASP.NET, MVC, Razor, FontAwesome, Orchard, HTML

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39:22 AM

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In Orchard, the content summaries are displayed with a limit of 200 characters and a default "more" link after the body summary. I felt the summary length was much too short, and I wanted to customize how the "more" link was displayed using an icon in the link. Surprisingly the first part was quite easy, it was the latter part that took a bit more effort to tweak.

I found the file where the summaries were being created, it exists in the Orchard.Core/Common/Views/Parts.Common.Body. …

ASP.NET MVC Accepting HTML Input from View

ASP.NET, MVC, Razor, HTML, ValidateInput

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:36:23 AM

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By default, ASP.NET will not allow any HTML or JavaScript tags to be entered as text for an input field. It will throw an error stating:

"A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client..."

This is a built-in security mechanism to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) or other forms of injection attacks. However for my blog, I needed to be able to accept HTML tags for the blog posts, so I did some research and found two primary ways around this problem.

[ValidateInput( …

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Contents tagged with HTML