Are there any benefits to using HtmlTextWriter if you are not going to benefit from adaptive rendering?

Question

Outside of benefiting from Adaptive Rendering for alternate devices, does it ever make sense to write all of this code:

writer.WriteBeginTag(\"t         


        

Answer 1

The biggest reason I can think of is to avoid having to take an extra step to sanitize your input. According to the docs, WriteEncodedText will automatically format any angle brackets appropriately.

XSS is a real thing, and anything you can do to make it easier for future devs to maintain your code is a benefit.