DropDownList being html encoded 1

[Naoise]

MyDropDown = System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList
MyReader = System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataReader

MyDropDown.Items.Add(New ListItem(MyReader("Value1"), MyReader("Value2")))

I have a dropdownlist that I want to add values to. The problem is that
the values in question have HTML in them. So in this example MyReader("Value1")
will have values like  a and then   b etc

Instead of getting a dropdownlist as follows

<select>
<option value="a">&nbsp;a</option>
<option value="b">&nbsp;&nbsp;b</option>
</select>

I end up getting

<select>
<option value="a">&amp;nbsp;a</option>
<option value="b">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;b</option>
</select>

as it html encodes the '&' on the fly which will renders
my nbsp null and void.

How do you prevent this HTML encoding going on?

 

[ca8msm]

Why does this matter? As far as the user will see, it should display correctly and if you need to read it, you can use the Server.HTMLDecode function to get the correct value.


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[Naoise]

It wasn't displaying correctly, &amp;nbsp;a will be displayed as is - Server.HTMLDecode sorted it, cheers