mvc2 Html.label("mystring") mangling

Question

Given the MVC2 code below why is the second label getting mangled?

<%=Html.Label("DisplayFor(" + "DateHired,\"Date\"):") %>
<%=Html.Label("DisplayFor(" + "c=>c." + "DateHired,\"Date\"):") %>
<%=Html.DisplayFor(c=>c.DateHired,"Date") %>

results in:

DisplayFor(DateHired,"Date"):

DateHired,"Date"):

2/28/1999

Answer 1

I think this is simply that you cannot use ">" in the text of HTML as it thinks it is markup.

instead use >

i.e.

<%=Html.Label("DisplayFor(" + "c=&gt;c." + "DateHired,\"Date\"):") %>