From C# to ASPX wrong encoding

Question

I have a favicon that I have to pass from server side. I did it like this:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="<%= favIcon%>" />

On the server side I have added a public string named favIcon and then

favIcon = "Generic_Icon_2015.ico";

If I look at the Web Debugger page on chrome i see the result like this

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="&lt;% = favIcon%>" />

so he wasn't able to recognize the < symbol. I also get

http://localhost/AL07/%3C%%20=%20favIcon%%3E 400 (Bad Request)

I noticed that if I remove runat="server" from <head> then it works fine..

What's happening?

I am not sure if this will totally answer your question, but check out this question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11510502/understanding-the-runat-server-attribute — Olivier De Meulder, Oct 30 '15 at 11:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Use Data Bind Code nuggets instead:-

 href="<%# favIcon%>"

But, you need to call Page.DataBind() method on page load like this:-

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   if (!IsPostBack)
   {
      Page.DataBind();
   }
}

For reason why your code (Content code nuggets) is not working, Check this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Oct 30 '15 at 11:46

Rahul Singh

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