Asp.net Hyperlink control equivalent to

Question

I wanted to define a HyperLink control in asp.net that produces html output similar to the following:

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Answer 1

If you need to access this as a server-side control (e.g. you want to add data attributes to a link, as I did), then there is a way to do what you want; however, you don't use the Hyperlink or HtmlAnchor controls to do it. Create a literal control and then add in "Your Text" as the text for the literal control (or whatever else you need to do that way). It's hacky, but it works.