Applying html formating in label control

The html formating is applied great in this case. The Surname is displayed with size 5.

lblWelcome.Text = "Welcome:<font size=''5''>" & txtSurname.Text & "</font>"

Why the html style is not applied in this example?

lblWelcome.Text = "Welcome:<font color=''white''>" & txtSurname.Text & "</font>"

From stackoverflow Chocol8

• You could just set the ForeColor property on the Label.

  lblWelcome.Text = txtSurname.Text;
  lblWelcome.ForeColor = "white";
  

  You'd have to put the 'Welcome' outside the label, but it would probably make more logical sense.

  Welcome:<asp:Label id="lblWelcome" runat="server" />
  

  womp : Even though it doesn't directly answer the question, this is +1 simply because outputting font tags is really 1996...

  g . : @womp - sometimes the answer is there is a better way. :-)
  From g .

• Hi there.

  As an alternative, you could use the ASP.NET Literal web control and set its Mode property to Encode or Transform.

  Literal1.Mode = LiteralMode.Encode
  
  Literal.Text = "Welcome:<font color='white'>" & txtSurname.Text & "</font>"
  

  In the above code, the HTML elements will be transformed into proper HTML, leaving just the surname text in white.

  Cheers. Jas.

  Chocol8 : I have tried Encode, Transform and PassThrough but it didn't work out. +1 for the literal control :)
  From Jason Evans

• Please, please, please don't use font tags. Also, if you really want to output HTML from the server side then you should be using a Literal control.

  Here is an example of how I would do it:

  aspx/ascx file:

  Welcome: <asp:Literal id="lit1" runat="server" />
  

  code behind:

  lit1.Text = "<span class='welcome'>" & txtSurname.Text & "</span>"
  

  OR your other example:

  lit1.Text = "<span class='welcomeBig'>" & txtSurname.Text & "</span>"
  

  css:

  span.welcome { color:#fff; }
  span.welcomeBig { font-size:24px; }
  

  Hope this helps

  Chocol8 : I guess CSS overides everything! I got the desired style without even using the literal control
  From Darko Z

• Also don't forget to HTML encode the surname: Server.HtmlEncode(txtSurname.Text);

  From Dan Diplo