“<” in a text box in ASP.NET --> how to allow it?

Question

I have a textfield which displays a string which contains < and >. The code throws an error because of that. How can I allow the usage of those chars in my textfield?

Answer 1

You can either use the TextBox.Text property which will HTML-encode whatever you enter

or you can enter the html names for < and >.

<

or you can enter the html codes

<

for the name and code conversions, check out this chart.