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Displaying HTML characters in LinkLabel

James Tech

Hi All,

I have a windows control written in C# .NET 1.1. The control reads an XML file content with HTML named and numeric entities e.g. "Some text ’ some text again.". I am trying to display this in a LinkLabel but somehow it is just showing blank event if I am using HtmlUtility.HtmlDecode().

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Vulpes14y ago
The problem there is that the HtmlDecode() method reads the & as a 'literal' ampersand and not as part of the HTML entity number ’ .

However, you should be able to get around this by applying the HtmlDecode() method twice before assigning the text to the LinkLabel:

string s = "Some text ’ some text again.";
string t = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(s);
t = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(t); // should now read as ’