HyperLink control and HTML encoding

[John A.]

If I have a hyperlink control like this:

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"
Text="&'><"
ToolTip="&'><"
NavigateUrl="~/">
</asp:HyperLink>

it renders as:

<a id="HyperLink1" title="&amp;'>&lt;" href="/">&'><</a>

Am I to understand that the Text attribute's value is never encoded, and
the ToolTip's value is encoded by default? If so, according to what
rules, since the > is not converted to &gt;?

 

[Andrew Morton]

If I have a hyperlink control like this:

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server"
Text="&'><"
ToolTip="&'><"
NavigateUrl="~/">
</asp:HyperLink>

it renders as:

<a id="HyperLink1" title="&amp;'>&lt;" href="/">&'><</a>

Am I to understand that the Text attribute's value is never encoded,
and the ToolTip's value is encoded by default? If so, according to
what rules, since the > is not converted to &gt;?

It looks like the Text attribute is taken literally - otherwise you couldn't
put any markup in it.

As long as all the < are encoded, the > don't need to be.