PassThrough: Displays the contents of the control without encoding.
Encode: Displays the contents of the control after HTML encoding the content.
Transform: Displays the contents of the control after stripping markup that is not supported by the requesting device.
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title>Show Literal Mode</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:Literal
id="ltlFirst"
Mode="PassThrough"
Text="<hr />"
Runat="server" />
<br /><br />
<asp:Literal
id="ltlSecond"
Mode="Encode"
Text="<hr />"
Runat="server" />
<br /><br />
<asp:Literal
id="ltlThird"
Mode="Transform"
Text="<hr />"
Runat="server" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>