I want to show HTML to the user, that was stored in a SQL Server Database. The data was queried from the SQL Server Database by using Entity Framework, then the C# model was converted to JSON, by using JSON.net and send to the browser by the ASP .NET web api service.
To show this HTML to the user with AngularJS, I used ngSanitize and the ng-bind-html directive:
(at this moment plunker is down, so I will edit this post in the future to add a plunker).
If the HTML contains angular bindings / directives, you can use the compile service to bind the scope to the html fragment:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$compile
So instead of using the ng-bind-html, you can use this directive:
https://github.com/incuna/angular-bind-html-compile/blob/master/angular-bind-html-compile.js
<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org" id="ng-app" ng-app="spike"> <head> <!-- Why is angular added to the html tag? Because IE8 won't work without it. --> <title>Spike page</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <!-- Why is "edge" used? Because we want the highest support for modern standards. --> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <!-- Library scripts --> <!--<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>--> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.6/angular.min.js"></script> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.6/angular-animate.min.js"></script> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.6/angular-sanitize.min.js"></script> <!-- Live reload script with grunt. --> <!--<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js"></script>--> <!-- App styles --> <style> /* A small custom reset stylesheet is used, to fix style differences between browsers. */ html, body { height: 100%; } body, div, p, ul, li, button { border: 0; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0; outline: 0; padding: 0; } body { background-color: #F1F1F1; padding: 20px; } .spike-title { color: #393939; } .spike-content { color: #393939; } .spike-content-with-class { color: #ff0000; } </style> <!-- App scripts --> <script> (function () { "use strict"; var app = angular.module("spike", ["ngAnimate", "ngSanitize"]); }()); (function () { "use strict"; var app = angular.module("spike"); var controller = function ($scope) { $scope.title = "How to show html embeded inside JSON to the user with AngularJS and ngSanitize."; var json = '{ \"html\":\"<br><br><p>Some html in JSON.</p><br><br><p class=\\"spike-content-with-class\\">Some html in JSON with a class attribute.</p>\" }'; var content = JSON.parse(json); $scope.content = content.html; }; app.controller("main", ["$scope", controller]); }()); </script> </head> <body> <div ng-controller="main"> <h2 class="spike-title">{{ title }}</h2> <div class="spike-content" ng-bind-html="content"></div> </div> </body> </html>