Question

When I use an anchor tag on an aspx page as below,

<a href="~/pages/page.aspx?id=<%= ServervariableName %>"> test </a>

it will get the variable value correctly assigned to id but it won’t route the page correctly as the ~ will not be evaluated without the runat=”server” attribute on the ‘a’ tag. But once I add the runat server attribute, it does not evaluate the servervariable name anymore.. Does anyone know how this works or what I should do to take care of both?

Answer 1

Try the following:

href="<%= ResolveUrl("~/pages/page.aspx") + "?id=" + ServervariableName %>"

This will only work if you do not add runat="server".