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HtmlTextWriter::EncodeAttributeValue Method (HtmlTextWriterAttribute, String)

Encodes the value of the specified markup attribute based on the requirements of the HttpRequest object of the current context.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

protected:
virtual String^ EncodeAttributeValue(
	HtmlTextWriterAttribute attrKey, 
	String^ value
)

Parameters

attrKey
Type: System.Web.UI::HtmlTextWriterAttribute

An HtmlTextWriterAttribute representing the markup attribute.

value
Type: System::String

A string containing the attribute value to encode.

Return Value

Type: System::String
A string containing the encoded attribute value.

The EncodeAttributeValue method removes double quotation marks ("), ampersands (&), and less than signs (<) so that invalid tags are not generated, regardless of the input. The actual encoding is performed by the HtmlAttributeEncode method.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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