getValue() of htmlEditor issue

[navalurzu7]

Hello,

I've been wracking my brains for 2 days trying to figure out why I cannot correctly get the content of my htmlEditor control. I've browsed the forums and tried a good 4 or 5 different solutions that have no effect. I am trying to get the content of the htmlEditor and post it to the database. Here is my setup:

aspx:

            <ext:Panel ID="pEmailEditor" runat="server" Region="East">
                <Items>
                    <ext:FieldSet ID="FieldSet1"
                        runat="server"
                        Title="Edit Template"
                        Layout="AnchorLayout"
                        DefaultAnchor="100%">
                        <Items>
                            <ext:HtmlEditor ID="eEmail"  
                                runat="server"
                                Width="610" 
                                Height="500"
                                EnableAlignments="false"
                                EnableFontSize="false">
                                <Listeners>
                                </Listeners>
                            </ext:HtmlEditor>
                        </Items>
                    </ext:FieldSet>
                </Items>
            </ext:Panel>
            <ext:Panel ID="pSubmit" runat="server" Region="South">
                <Items>
                    <ext:FormPanel ID="FormPanel1"
                        runat="server"
                        Frame="true"
                        Layout="AnchorLayout" Region="East">
                        <Items>
                            <ext:Button ID="bSubmitTemplate" 
                                runat="server" 
                                Text="Submit Template"
                                Margin="10" X="600">                              
                                <Listeners>
                                    <Click Handler="
                                        Ext.net.DirectMethod.request({
                                            url : '/Home/SubmitTemplate/',
                                            params : {
                                                text : #{eEmail}.getValue()
                                            }
                                        });
                                    " />
                                </Listeners>
                            </ext:Button>
                        </Items>
                    </ext:FormPanel>
                </Items>
            </ext:Panel>

Here's my controller method i'm trying to call in the Button Click Event (/Home/SubmitTemplate)

    Public Function SubmitTemplate(ByVal text As String) As ActionResult
        Dim response As FormPanelResult = New FormPanelResult
        Dim sUserName As String = HttpContext.User.Identity.Name
        Dim sUserID = (From u In DBSecurityContext.aspnet_Users Where u.UserName = Trim(sUserName) Select u.UserId).First
        Dim sSRID = (From p In DBSecurityContext.UserProfiles Where p.UserId = sUserID Select p.SRID).First
        ViewData("SRID") = sSRID
        ViewData("UserName") = sUserName.ToLower

        Try
            Dim instmp As New tbl_EmailTemplate With _
                {.TemplateName = "Test1", _
                 .TemplateOwner = sUserName, _
                 .TemplateText = text, _
                 .DateCreated = DateTime.Now}

            DBIEnergyContext.tbl_EmailTemplates.InsertOnSubmit(instmp)
            DBIEnergyContext.SubmitChanges()

            response.Success = True
            response.ExtraParams("msg") = "Template has been uploaded."

        Catch ex As System.Exception
            response.Success = False
            response.ExtraParams("msg") = "Error: " & "..." & ex.Message

        End Try

        Return response
    End Function

The issues are thusly:

1. When i use #{eEmail}.getValue(), the method call is never run and nothing happens at all.
2. When i use #{eEmail}.text, the method is called, however NULL is what is passed back into the method.
3. When i use #{eEmail}.value, a value is passed back but it is formatted strangely, also when i submit the same values twice, 2 different values are stored in the database. Here's a screenshot of the editor, and the values being stored in the db:



submitting this same content twice yields the following in the db:
"%3Cb%3ETest%3C/b%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Ci%3ETest%" etcetera etcetera
and
"%253Cb%253ETest%253C/b%253E%253Cbr%253E%" etcetera etcetera

If this is the correct values of the html, then how can i convert this value BACK into the htmlEditor so that is displays the same way it was entered?