mvc3 clickable link into plaintext - hyperlink

is there a way to get the my website in plaintext or in some form to show the tag and the content inside? so that some can copy the whole thing..
I have tried
<plaintext>
my website
</plaintext>
but the plaintext messes up all the other tags...

Try replacing each < with < and each > with >, so that
my website
becomes
<a href="mysite">my website</a>
and renders in the browser as
my website
instead of
my website

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GlassMapper Link not rendered when %20 in subject

I have an interesting situation where I am trying to render a link which could be a URL to a site or a mailTo tag.
The issue is that when I put any spaces in the subject field these get converted into %20's when I save the link then the link doesn't get pulled into the rendering at all (it just returns null in the view).
Interestingly if I manually remove the %20's after I save the link (this can be done in the page editor) the link comes through fine!
Now if I save and publish the link returns null but if I manually edit and remove the %20 GlassMapper grabs the link fine.
Any ideas why GlassMapper wont get the link when there is %20's in there?

Prevent automatic hyperlink in reStructuredText

reStructuredText automatically creates a hyperlink when it sees a URL like https://stackoverflow.com/
Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I just want the link to be in plain-text, no hyperlink.
I know this is easily done in HTML but I am looking for a reST solution.
With a backslash in front of the URL, it is rendered as plain text:
Go to \http://stackoverflow.com
This works with rst2html.py (from Docutils) and with Sphinx.

How to retrieve web site favicons?

I am using Ruby on Rails v3.0.9 and I would like to retrieve the favicon.ico image of each web site for which I set a link.
That is, if in my application I set the http://www.facebook.com/ URL I would like to retrieve the Facebook' icon and use\insert that in my web pages. Of course I would like to do that also for all other web sites.
How can I retrieve favicon.ico icons from web sites in an "automatic" way (with "automatic" I mean to search for a favicon in a web site and get the link to it - I think no because not all web sites have a favicon named exactly 'favicon.ico'. I would like to recognize that in an "automatic" way)?
P.S.: What I would like to make is something like Facebook makes when to add a link\URL in your Facebook page: it recognizes the related web site logo and then appends that to the link\URL.
http://getfavicon.appspot.com/ works great for fetching favicons. Just give it the url for the site and you'll get the favicon back:
http://g.etfv.co/http://www.google.com
Recently I have written some similar solution.
If we want find favicon url, that can be not only .ico file and can be not in the root, we should parse target site html.
In Ruby on Rails, I have used nokogiri gem for html parsing.
First we parse all meta tags where itemprop attribute contains image keyword. It is necessary in situations where target site used https://schema.org/WebPage template, that more modern technology than just link tag.
If we found it, we can use content attribute as favicon url. But we should check it for really URL existence, just to be sure.
If we can't found some meta tags, then we search for standard link tags, where rel attribute contains icon keyword. This is W3C standard situation (https://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon)
And some code of my solution:
require 'open-uri'
def site_icon_link site
icon_link = nil
url = nil
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(site))
metas = doc.css("meta[itemprop*=image]")
if metas.any?
url = metas.first.attributes['content'].value
else
links = doc.css("link[rel*=icon]")
if links.any?
url = links.first.attributes['href'].value
end
end
if url =~ URI::regexp
icon_link = url
elsif (site + url) =~ URI::regexp
icon_link = site + url
end
icon_link
end
The favicons are being found by two ways. First, there is a 'hardcoded', traditional name of `http://example.com/favicon.ico'.
Second, the HTML pages may define the favicon in their <head> sections, by <link rel="icon"...> and a few other. (You may want to read the Wikipedia article about favicon)
So, your automat may fetch the main page of given website, parse it and check whether there are proper <link> tags, and then, as a fallback, try the "hardcoded" favicon.ico name.
I think I missed your question ...
you want to grab a favicon from another site and make it yours?
if that's what you want, you can get directly from the home icon and save it in your public folder.
thus: www.facebook.com favicon: www.facebook.com/favicon.ico
take that image and save with the name favicon in your public folder
done it should be sufficient
if you want it dinamicaly you can use jquery, but if you want that static you can put a image tag pointing to: [root url of the website]/favicon.ico
like this: <%= image_tag "#{website.url}/favicon.ico" %>
With javascript (jQuery), like this: http://jsfiddle.net/aX8T4/
Can't you just use a regular img tag with the src attribute pointing to the favicon?
<img src="http://www.facebook.com/favicon.icon">
This assumes a browser recognizes a .ico file as an image. Helped methods would probably work with this too.
You can do it easily with pismo gem.
Quick example to get the url of Facebook's favicon:
Pismo::Document.new('http://www.facebook.com/').favicon
Here's my ruby method, that will strip the end off a URL, append the favicon, and produce an image tag.
def favicon_for(url)
matches = url.match(/[^:\/]\/(.*)/)
image_tag url.sub(matches[1], '') + '/favicon.ico', {width: '16px', height: '16px'}
end

Text written by tinnymce is not displayed well formatted in asp.net mvc

I use Tinymce to edit article body in my asp.net mvc application. I also put [ValidateInput(false)] on 'Edit' Action result, and I get no errors, but When I want to show the article body to user, even by using Html.Raw(article.Body), it show raw html tags and not the formaytted text. Here is a example of out put:
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>dsadad asdsadad asdsadadad</strong></span></p>
ps: I use AntiXss library.
It looks like AntiXss is encoding the HTML so < will become <. To decode it back to HTML, try this:
#Html.Raw(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(article.Body))

Embedded HTML code being displayed rather than HTML being rendered

I am trying to use the calendar gem in my project (https://github.com/elevation/event_calendar). But when I open the calendar page, it renders the page by showing the html code of the calendar rather than rendering the html. Basically the source for the page generate is like
<div class="ec-calendar">
instead of
.
Can anyone let me know what is going on and how to resolve it.
I assume you are using Rails 3? As a security measure against XSS (Cross Site Scripting), Rails 3 renders html inside of strings as text. If you know the html in your string is safe, call html_safe on it, like
'<div class="ec-calendar">'.html_safe
or
raw '<div class="ec-calendar">'
html_safe I believe, is preferred over raw. Not sure what's different behind the scenes, if anything.

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