for property grails.views.encodePostParams = true (default), how do deal with character limits on inputs? For example say for Company Name on a Company creation form, the user handle: <Max> as their handle name. The input only allows 5 characters. This would try to save and be encoded as <Max> which is more than 5 characters, which would fail the save. Any idea on how to solve this senario? Second Question: Assume it does save as <Max> (ignore char limit issue), when i go to edit my handle I would see <Max> — how to make the front end form show the decoded value?

why you need to encode the html code? in the gsp file you can use ${raw(html)}