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")

 

[vMike]

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

 

[vMike]

One more comment, the & should not effect the url query string. It
should still work the same.