Asp.net MVC difference between <%: and <%= [duplicate]

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Can somebody explain me the difference between using <%: and <%= in an aspx view of an MVC application.

Thanks, Radu

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Roughly speaking, <%=term%> translates to Resonse.Write(term) whereas <%:term%> translates to Response.Write(Html.Encode(term))

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<%: does an HTML Encode, whereas <%= does not.

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It automatically html encodes the text that is rendered in the webpage.

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<%: %> will attempt to convert whatever is placed in between it to a string then Html Encodes it and outputs it to the response stream.. However, if the object implements IHtmlString, it will NOT encode it.

<%= %> will convert whatever is between it to a string and output it to the response stream.

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The <%: was a new syntax that came with ASP.NET 4.0 and in effect it automatically HtmlEncodes the contents contained within the tags.