Issue with meta tag.

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I have a metatag like this.

<meta id="seoDescription" name="description" runat="server" />

Now i am setting this metatag content from codebase.

C#

string sContent = "a&b";
      seoDescription.Content = sContent;

Issue happens is that when i view source of page i get a & amp; b instead of a&b
Why & is converting into html value of & like & amp;

Posted 14-Nov-14 6:08am

k@ran

Updated 14-Nov-14 6:09am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2014-11-14T06:17:00

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You're not supposed to have an & on its own in an HTML document; it has to be encoded as &.

The value from your database is being correctly HTML-encoded. There's nothing to worry about. :)

Posted 14-Nov-14 6:17am

Richard Deeming

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Nov-14 12:37pm

5ed.
—SA

k@ran 14-Nov-14 13:10pm

Still same issue. If i save value in db as A & amp; B. Still source looks like

<head><meta id="seoDescription" name="description" content="A&ampB" />

but i need value in following format

<head><meta id="seoDescription" name="description" content="A&B" />

Richard Deeming 14-Nov-14 13:12pm

There isn't an issue.

Your HTML must be valid. You cannot have an & character on its own in a valid HTML document.

Any code which reads your page will automatically handle the encoded characters, and know that & means &.

k@ran 14-Nov-14 13:15pm

Is it possible to show value in format like A&B in content attribute of meta tag ? If i print this value in literal then it shows correct value without encoding.

Richard Deeming 14-Nov-14 13:18pm

So you want to generate INVALID HTML markup?

You can't do that with the <meta runat="server" ... /> control. You'll have to use a literal control, and generate the INVALID HTML yourself.