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c#html-helper

What's the format for a string with a forward slash in C#?

I'm using an HtmlHelper where I give table data id's based on day and month values which are retrieved. The problem is the id is not recognized in the format it's in. '/' seems to not be picked up yet when I replace '/' with '-' it works. 

daysRow.AppendFormat("<td id='{0}/{1}'>{0}</td>", day, d1.Month.ToString());

Can anyone tell me how to format this?

Solution

  • The problem is not with C#, but rather, with your using a '/' character in HTML. From the section of the HTML 4.0 spec on the id attribute:

    ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

    The '/' violates that rule, which is why you are seeing issues when using that, but not the '-' character.