Question

I’m having an issue creating a link like "<a href="javascript:window.open('www.microsoft.com');">Visit Microsoft</a> using stringbuilder. I am adding html to a panel dynamically and I am trying to create a popup link.

The problem is that for some reason the link gets “mixed up”. For example:

Dim s As String
sb.Append("<A HREF='javascript:void(0)' onclick='window.open(")
sb.Append("'")
sb.Append("Match.aspx?MatchID=")
sb.Append(mt.MatchID)
sb.Append("&batchid=")
sb.Append(mb.batchID)
sb.Append("')>")
sb.Append("Match</A>")

gives an output of :

<a match.aspx?matchid="28840&amp;batchid=26596')" onclick="window.open(" href="javascript:void(0)">Match</a>

I have no clue what I’m doing wrong, it even does this kind of crap for a regular string!

Please help!

Answer 1

Here is your code, plus a declaration of a Stringbuilder, that I pasted into LINQPad

Sub Main
Dim sb As New Stringbuilder
Dim s As String
sb.Append("<A HREF=""javascript:void(0)"" onclick=""window.open(")
sb.Append("'")
sb.Append("Match.aspx?MatchID=")
sb.Append("45") 'Used random numbers for MatchID
sb.Append("&batchid=")
sb.Append("45") 'Used random numbers for batchid
sb.Append("')")
sb.Append(""">")
sb.Append("Match</A>")
Console.WriteLine(sb)
End Sub

And here is what I got

_{(source: angelfire.com)}

Besides the output not being HTML format, I cannot see how we get different results.

EDIT:

I have changed the code around to produce HTML format along with an updated photo.