I put ValidateRequest="false" in my page directive but the page acts like it's not posting back. If I remove the html then it posts back fine.
Using the text boxes inside an update panel shouldn't make a difference right?
I'm trying to store text in my database with html formatting.
Again, I am using an update panel.
Apparently you need to put <httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" /> in web.config to be able to use the ValidateRequest feature in the page directive.
You're probably getting an error behind the scenes. If you take out the update panel do you see a nice YSOD?
If this is a .Net 4.0 application, you'll need to change the web config in order to allow for unsafe characters, even though you turned ValidateRequest to false.
The requisite change looks like this:
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />