undesired behavior in setting hyperlink .NavigateURL property

[Boban Dragojlovic]

in the codebehind portion of a page, I dynamically create a series of
hyperlinks that I add to the page.

in that code, I have something like this:

dim h as new hyperlink

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M"
Unfortunately, when it renders the HTML page, it changes the ampersand in
the URL as follows

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M"
This, of course, doesn't work, because the 2nd parameter's name has now been
changed from 'gender' to 'amp;gender'
How can I get around this?
(I tried setting the 'href' attribute directly ...
h.attributes.add("href","/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M") ... but it
produces the same result)

[vMike]

you might look into HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("yourtext")

"Boban Dragojlovic" <news@_N_O_S_P_AM_dragojlovic.org> wrote in message
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in the codebehind portion of a page, I dynamically create a series of
hyperlinks that I add to the page.

in that code, I have something like this:

dim h as new hyperlink

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M"
Unfortunately, when it renders the HTML page, it changes the ampersand in
the URL as follows

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&amp;gender=M"
This, of course, doesn't work, because the 2nd parameter's name has now been changed from 'gender' to 'amp;gender'
How can I get around this?
(I tried setting the 'href' attribute directly ...
h.attributes.add("href","/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M") ... but it
produces the same result)

[vMike]

I am sorry I meant httputility.htmldecode("yourtext")

"vMike" <Mi************@nospam.gewarren.com.delete> wrote in message
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you might look into HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("yourtext")

"Boban Dragojlovic" <news@_N_O_S_P_AM_dragojlovic.org> wrote in message
news:MX***************@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com. ..

in the codebehind portion of a page, I dynamically create a series of
hyperlinks that I add to the page.

in that code, I have something like this:

dim h as new hyperlink

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M"
Unfortunately, when it renders the HTML page, it changes the ampersand in the URL as follows

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&amp;gender=M"
This, of course, doesn't work, because the 2nd parameter's name has now

been

changed from 'gender' to 'amp;gender'
How can I get around this?
(I tried setting the 'href' attribute directly ...
h.attributes.add("href","/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M") ... but it
produces the same result)

[vMike]

One more comment, the &amp; should not effect the url query string. It
should still work the same.
"Boban Dragojlovic" <news@_N_O_S_P_AM_dragojlovic.org> wrote in message
news:MX***************@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com. ..

in the codebehind portion of a page, I dynamically create a series of
hyperlinks that I add to the page.

in that code, I have something like this:

dim h as new hyperlink

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M"
Unfortunately, when it renders the HTML page, it changes the ampersand in
the URL as follows

h.NavigateURL = "/somepage.aspx?age=35&amp;gender=M"
This, of course, doesn't work, because the 2nd parameter's name has now been changed from 'gender' to 'amp;gender'
How can I get around this?
(I tried setting the 'href' attribute directly ...
h.attributes.add("href","/somepage.aspx?age=35&gender=M") ... but it
produces the same result)