How to make Response.Write Display special character like "<",">"

Question

I want to use Response.Write to display some text on the screen using ASP.NET I created a variable

String s = "There is some <hidden text> which is not visible";
Response.Write(s);

What I found is when the browser only display "There is some which is not visible" any text written in between symbols '<'......'>' is neglected by the browser.

How can I display entire text?

Please advice.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '14 at 12:46

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You can try this:

String s = @"There is some <hidden text> which is not visible";
Response.Write(s);

answered Mar 09 '14 at 12:46

Ruben de la Fuente

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '14 at 12:43

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I'm not familiar with C# so this might not work, but you can escape the < and > by using html escape characters.

< for <

> for >

So maybe try...

String s = "There is some &#60;hidden text&#62; which is not visible";

answered Mar 09 '14 at 12:43

domdomcodecode

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Might have to escape the semicolon in C# somehow. – domdomcodecode Mar 09 '14 at 12:45
Perfect this worked :-) Using escape sequence character '/' before the special character was also not working – ks_baba Mar 09 '14 at 12:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '14 at 13:15

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Use HTML Encoding

Server.HtmlEncode("There is some <hidden text> which is not visible");

answered Mar 09 '14 at 13:15

Emad Mokhtar

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thanks @Emad This also worked when i used it as Response.Write(Server.HtmlEncode("There is some which is not visible");) – ks_baba Mar 09 '14 at 13:21

How to make Response.Write Display special character like "<",">"

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