HttpServerUtility.HtmlDecode Method (String, TextWriter)

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

Namespace: System.Web
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)

public:
void HtmlDecode (
	String^ s, 
	TextWriter^ output
)
public void HtmlDecode (
	String s, 
	TextWriter output
)
public function HtmlDecode (
	s : String, 
	output : TextWriter
)
Not applicable.

Parameters

s

The HTML string to decode.

output

The TextWriter output stream that contains the decoded string.

URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmit text in URL strings. Characters such as a question mark (?), ampersand (&), slash mark (/), and spaces might be truncated or corrupted by some browsers. As a result, these characters must be encoded in <a> tags or in query strings where the strings can be re-sent by a browser in a request string.

HtmlDecode decodes text that has been transmitted to the server.

HtmlDecode is a convenient way to access the System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode method at run time from an ASP.NET application. Internally, HtmlDecode uses System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode to decode strings.

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>.".

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.
String encodedString = "This is a &ltTest String&gt.";
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
get_Server().HtmlDecode(encodedString, writer);
String decodedString = writer.ToString();

var encodedString : String = "This is a &ltTest String&gt."
var writer : StringWriter = new StringWriter()
Server.HtmlDecode(encodedString, writer)
var decodedString : String = writer.ToString()


Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

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