Html Encoding is basically converting Html tags in non Html tags so that they can be embeded into a html code. Below code explains how rendering of a html string may vary because of html encoding
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | string htmlString = "<b>Hello world!</b>"; Response.Write(htmlString); // This will print: Hello world! string htmlEncoded = Server.HtmlEncode(htmlString); Response.Write(htmlEncoded); // This will print: <b>Hello world!</b> |
You may want to Html encode a string before showing any user input on the page
