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Why isn't font rendered in HTML when surronded by "

I have some HTML stored in a database and I am generating an static HTML file out of it. However when i open the file in the browser, the font doesn't render as I expect it.

I have tracked down the problem and I see it is because of & quot;

<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Roboto Regular&quot;;">Some text</span></p>

Now if I replace the & quot; with double quotes, it works fine.

This is also generated through C#. What is the best approach to fix this? Should I just use Replace function to convert them to quotes or is there a library that I can use to do it more efficiently? or is it even simpler to fix.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Solution

  • You can use System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode (and Encode) to handle this sort of thing.

    However you should be asking yourself why your font string includes HTML encoded characters.