Question

When I add   or é to a text value of a listitem, it display the code of the HTML entity instead of the result (a space or é).

I can add ‘physical’ non-breaking spaces or special chars, but I would like to avoid that if possible. Sometimes the data stored in database is encoded, and I don’t want to always process data before displaying it.

Any solution ?

Thanks

Edit note : previous description noted it was about a dropdownlist simulating a treeview, but it was merely an example ; I can’t and don’t want to replace the dropdownlist by anything else.

Answer 1

ListItems are automatically HtmlEncoded.

You can HtmlDecode the list items before hand, so when they are HtmlEncoded you get the proper characters:

DropDownList1.DataSource = new List<string> { Server.HtmlDecode('A&hellip;'), Server.HtmlDecode('B&nbsp;C') }; DropDownList1.DataBind();