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Asked: 2026-05-18T05:26:56+00:00

Every time I put an inline tag on the link’s href attribute it somehow

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Every time I put an inline tag on the link’s href attribute it somehow gets auto-encoded. Is this ASP.NET’s default behavior? How can I dynamically set the Href attribute using code? This is in MVC btw.

Attempted something like this

<link href="<%: Link.Content.Jquery_css %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

which rendered this (nothing changed)

<link href="<%: Link.Content.Jquery_css %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and this

<link href="<%= Link.Content.Jquery_css %> rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

which produced this (I couldn’t remember the exact numbers, but it seems the bracket-percent-equals was encoded to link format)

<link href="/View/Shared%25Link.Content.Jquery_css%25" %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Link.Content.Jquery_css is a strongly typed string containing the link made using T4MVC.

Add’l info: I used ASP.NET MVC 2, in .NET 4 and testing in Firefox.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s getting auto-encoded because of the tag your using (<%: %>). If you don’t want the URL to be Encoded, use the following:

    <link href="<%= Link.Content.Jquery_css %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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