System.Web Namespace   HttpServerUtility Class

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Decodes an HTML-encoded string and sends the resulting output to a TextWriter output stream.

[ VB ]
Overloads Public Sub HtmlDecode ( _
   ByVal s As String, _
   ByVal output As TextWriter _
)

[ C# ]
public void HtmlDecode (
   string s,
   TextWriter output
);

[ C++ ]
public: void HtmlDecode (
   String* s,
   TextWriter* output
);

[ JScript ]
public function HtmlDecode (
   s : String,
   output : TextWriter
);

s

The HTML string to decode.

output

The TextWriter output stream containing the decoded string.

URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmit text in URL strings. Characters such as "?", "&", "/", and spaces may be truncated or corrupted by some browsers so those characters cannot be used in ASP.NET pages in "<A>" tags or in querystrings where the strings may be sent by a browser in a request string. HtmlDecode decodes text that has been transmitted to the server.

The following example decodes a string that has been HTML-encoded for transmission over HTTP. It decodes the supplied string named EncodedString which contains the text "This is a &ltTest String&gt.", and copies it into the string named DecodedString as "This is a <Test String>."

[ VB ] 
Dim EncodedString As String = "This is a &ltTest String&gt."
Dim writer As New StringWriter
Server.HtmlDecode ( EncodedString, writer ) 
Dim DecodedString As String = writer.ToString ( )

[ C# ] 
String EncodedString = "This is a &ltTest String&gt.";
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ( );
Server.HtmlDecode ( EncodedString, writer );
String DecodedString = writer.ToString ( );
   

HttpServerUtility Members   HttpServerUtility.HtmlDecode Overload List

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