MVC 4 HTML is never decoded on POST - html

Question

I am using a Kendo editor to create email templates and on POST, once a change to the template has been submitted, always renders in encoded HTML.
This is my razor code on the page:
#model Business.Models.Administration.EmailSetupViewModel
#using Kendo.Mvc.UI;
<h2>Application Stages Portal</h2>
<h4>Email Setup</h4>
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
if (Model.EmailSaved)
{
<h2>
Email template saved</h2>
}
else
{
#* #Html.DisplayFor(m => m.EmailSavedMsg)*#
}
#Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.EmailTemplateToEdit, Model.EmailTemplatesList)
<input type="submit" name="setup" value="setup" />
if (Model.ShowEmailForm)
{
<div id="email-edit">
#Html.Label("Title")
#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EmailTitle, new { style = "width:200px" })
<br />
#(Html.Kendo().Editor()
.Name("editor")
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width: 600px;height:440px" })
.Value(#<text>
#Html.Raw(Model.EmailBody)
</text>))
</div>
<input type="submit" id="btnSaveTemplate" name="update" value="update" />
<h2>
Please note</h2>
<p>
The following items are <i>reserved and should not be changed, you may move them
to a different place within the message. </i>
<ul>
<li><*name*> e.g. Fred Flinstone </li>
<li><*membernumber*> e.g. 12345678 </li>
</ul>
</p>
}
}
And this is where the actual editor markup is on the page
#(Html.Kendo().Editor()
.Name("editor")
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width: 600px;height:440px" })
.Value(#<text>
#Html.Raw(Model.EmailBody)
</text>))
Model.EmailBody contains the actual string.
When I GET the page, it renders fine. But when I do POST it never decodes so the rendering is wrong. I don't want to see all the HTML tags but the actual formatting.
This is my Controller code:
#region Email template
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult EmailSetup()
{
ViewBag.DisplayName = StaticFunctions.GetDisplayName(this.User.Identity.Name);
EmailSetupViewModel model = new EmailSetupViewModel();
Business.Administration.Email Email = new Business.Administration.Email();
var list = Email.GetTemplateList();
model.EmailTemplatesList = list.OrderBy(o => o.Text).ToList();
return View(model);
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult EmailSetup(EmailSetupViewModel model, string value, string editor)
{
ViewBag.DisplayName = StaticFunctions.GetDisplayName(this.User.Identity.Name);
string body = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(editor); //encode to db
if (Request["update"] != null)
{
Business.Administration.Email Email = new Business.Administration.Email();
model.EmailSaved = Email.SaveTemplate(model, body);
//ModelState.Clear(); // when doing POST - clearing the ModelState will prevent encode of HTML (Default behaviour). This isn't good long term solution.
if (model.EmailSaved)
{
model.EmailSavedMsg = "Template saved";
}
else
{
model.EmailSavedMsg = "Template couldn't be saved";
}
model.EmailTemplatesList = Email.GetTemplateList();
model = Email.GetTemplate(model);
model.EmailBody = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(model.EmailBody);
return View(model);
}
else
{
Business.Administration.Email Email = new Business.Administration.Email();
model.EmailTemplatesList = Email.GetTemplateList();
model = Email.GetTemplate(model);
model.EmailBody = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(model.EmailBody);
return View(model);
}
}
#endregion
This is my model, I am using [AllowHtml] attribute on the property.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace Business.Models.Administration
{
public class EmailSetupViewModel
{
public EmailSetupViewModel()
{
this.EmailTemplatesList = new List<SelectListItem>();
}
public string EmailTemplateToEdit { get; set; }
public List<SelectListItem> EmailTemplatesList { get; set; }
public string EmailTitle { get; set; }
[AllowHtml]
public string EmailBody { get; set; }
public bool ShowEmailForm { get; set; }
public bool EmailSaved { get; set; }
public string EmailSavedMsg { get; set; }
}
}
Finally two screenshots, one on GET and one on POST.
I was using ModelState.Clear() as well but when I clicked back on the browser, it wouldn't decode.
So basically I want help rendering the HTML in my editor on post so it renders properly and doesn't show HTML tags in the editor.