w3c validation error in asp.net

Question

I am new in W3c validations, I am trying to fix this error but it\'s not happening. The error is following:

character \"&\" is the first character of

Answer 1

& is a special charater for concat, you need to escape it: make them all & not &.

Answer 2

Here is the solution I came up with:

<asp:Label ID="lblDescription" runat="server" Text='<%# Server.HtmlEncode( (string) Eval("Decr")) %>'></asp:Label>