Rendering Rich Content in ASPX Templates

Brendan McKenzie asked on August 4, 2014 09:25

I have a document type that has a rich text field in it with the WYSIWYG (CKEditor) control. I render this field on an ASPX page through an <asp:Literal /> This works fine for most markup, however when a user inserts a YouTube video the following is rendered.

{^youtubevideo|(width)425|(height)264|(rel)False|(url)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zss6-E-b8PA|(fs)True|(loop)False|(autoplay)False^}

Is there any utility to parse these content strings into valid HTML tags (i.e., a YouTube embed iframe)?

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Richard Sustek answered on September 23, 2014 13:08

Hi Brendan,

I'm guessing that you have added this youtube video trough the widget in CkEditor, is that correct?

I believe that you need to resolve these controls in order to show the correct HTML Markup. You basically need to wrap your literal control in a placeholder like this:

<asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="plcContent">
  <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="ltlContent" EnableViewState="false" />
</asp:PlaceHolder>

And then call following method to resolve the controls inside:

CMS.ExtendedControls.ControlsHelper.ResolveDynamicControls(this.plcContent);

There is also an older article which explains this and has some nice examples: http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/how-to-resolving-the-inline-controls

Let us know if this helps and if you need anything else.

Kind regards,

Richard Sustek

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