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Asp.net – Decoding TextBox.Text from a GridView

I have a GridView control. Each row has a textbox with a description I need. When I pull back the description I see that the (") has been encoded:

TextBox selectedRowTextbox = (TextBox)selectedRow.Cells[5].Controls[1];
string selectedRowText = selectedRowTextbox.Text;

The result:

24" Sparkle Disco Ball

I have tried:

  • Server.HtmlDecode
  • Regex.Unescape
  • Uri.UnescapeDataString
  • Regex.Replace

What I would expect is this:

24" Sparkle Disco Ball

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I figured out what I was doing wrong. Visual Studio displays string values containing double quotes and backslashes like this in my example. That's not a great thing to do IMHO.


  2. 0

    You can use the HttpUtility.HtmlDecode method to decode the text.

    TextBox selectedRowTextbox = (TextBox)selectedRow.Cells[5].Controls[1];
string selectedRowText = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(selectedRowTextbox.Text);
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