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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:01:59+00:00

It doesn’t appear that the strings are being encoded. Issue: Dim encodedStr As String

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It doesn’t appear that the strings are being encoded.

Issue:

Dim encodedStr As String = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("<p>This is a test</p>")

The output produces:

<p>This is a test</p>

Expected result:

&lt;p&gt;This is a test&lt;/p&gt;
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d double check to make sure whatever is displaying the value is indeed displaying it in text mode, and not HTML. Under the debugger, it works fine:

    HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("<p>This is a test</p>");
"&lt;p&gt;This is a test&lt;/p&gt;"

    (Yes, this is C# but the .NET framework code is all shared and I was lazy)

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