How do i escape text for html use in C#? I want to do
sample="<span>blah<span>"
and have
<span>blah<span>
show up as plain text instead of blah only with the tags part of the html :(. Using C# not ASP
A:
You can use actual html tags <xmp> and </xmp> to output the string as is to show all of the tags in between the xmp tags.
Or you can also use on the server Server.UrlEncode or HttpUtility.HtmlEncode.
Andrew Siemer
2009-06-17 05:34:38
I made the question more clear. I dont want the tags to be part of html as the user can do </pre> and break it.
acidzombie24
2009-06-17 05:36:25
+1 for promoting the infamous `xmp` tag
Ron Klein
2009-06-17 05:53:52
+6
A:
using System.Web;
var encoded = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(unencoded);
Michael S. Scherotter
2009-06-17 05:36:15
If you also want to encode unicode characters to non-unicode, check out this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82008/non-unicode-xml-representation
Gyuri
2009-12-04 18:14:50
+1
A:
Also, you can use this if you don't want to use the System.Web assembly:
var encoded = System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(unencoded)
ondatra
2009-12-19 21:59:05