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HyperLink control and HTML encoding

If I have a hyperlink control like this:

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"
Text="&'><"
ToolTip="&'><"
NavigateUrl="~/">
</asp:HyperLink>

it renders as:

<a id="HyperLink1" title="&'><" href="/">&'><</a>

Am I to understand that the Text attribute's value is never encoded, and
the ToolTip's value is encoded by default? If so, according to what
rules, since the > is not converted to >?

Re: HyperLink control and HTML encoding

John A. wrote:
> If I have a hyperlink control like this:
>
> <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"
> Text="&'><"
> ToolTip="&'><"
> NavigateUrl="~/">
> </asp:HyperLink>
>
> it renders as:
>
> <a id="HyperLink1" title="&'><" href="/">&'><</a>
>
> Am I to understand that the Text attribute's value is never encoded,
> and the ToolTip's value is encoded by default? If so, according to
> what rules, since the > is not converted to >?

It looks like the Text attribute is taken literally - otherwise you couldn't
put any markup in it.

As long as all the < are encoded, the > don't need to be.

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Andrew