How to render decoded HTML in a (i.e. a <br>) in GridView cell
What about setting the HtmlEncode property to false? To me, this is much simpler.
<asp:BoundField DataField="MyColumn" HtmlEncode="False" />
protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e){ for (int i = 0; i < e.Row.Cells.Count; i++) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { string decodedText = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(e.Row.Cells[i].Text); e.Row.Cells[i].Text = decodedText; } }}