Character data HTML

Question

I need to show character data in HTML files. It works fine when data is simple, but problem arises when data is similar to tags.

Let me describe my problem.

I am showing data coming from database tables to HTML files (I am creating table to show data). Now if content in my table is like <img src ="445521.jpg"> it gives me error while parsing. since it would try to search image in my system.

In XML, we have <![CDATA["content"]]> to rescue, but I dont know what to in HTML for this, More over I am converting this HTML to PDF. It gives me error even converting to PDF.

Can anybody tell how to create html to make parser understand that the content is Character data ?

Thanks in anticipation.

Answer 1

Try HttpUtility.HtmlEncode (you'll have to import System.Web). This will convert the special characters to HTML entities (e.g. < → <).