Allow HTML text in Radgrid template column

Question

<ItemTemplate>
   <asp:Label ID="lblCompanyName" runat="server" 
      ToolTip='<%# CheckDbNull.ToStr(Eval("Name")) %>' 
      Text='<%# CheckDbNull.ToStr(Eval("Name")) %>'>
   </asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>

I have some data in HTML formatted like <abc>, <Name>, etc., but it will render as HTML and it is not displayed.

How do I display HTML text in grid columns? I am using Telerik:RadGrid and template column.

Answer 1

use Server.HTMLEncode for displaying < and > sign.
Follows

   Text='  <%# Server.HTMLEncode(CheckDbNull.ToStr(Eval("Name"))) %>'

It changes as following

• The less-than character (<) is converted to &lt ;.
• The greater-than character (>) is converted to &gt ;.
• The ampersand character (&) is converted to &amp ;.
• The double-quote character (") is converted to &quot ;.
• Any ASCII code character whose code is greater-than or equal to 0x80 is converted to &#< number>, where number is the ASCII character value.
  MSDN says Server.HTMLEncode

Details are below
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525347%28v=vs.90%29.aspx