I am dynamically rendering a link like this:

<a href=mypage.aspx?item=You%20%26%20I></a>

I want the Request.QueryString["item"];

to read,

You & I

but when I hover over the link, the query string is "You & I" and when I click on the link the page load thinks the "&" is a special character.

When I hover over the link, I want the hint to read mypage.aspx?item=You%20%26%20I

How do I have the link rendered as I set it?

My links are rendering correctly but for some reason the Browser is converting my dynamically rendered links and then sending the converted values to the next page.

It's interesting because if I hard code the links, it works fine.

If I create two pages and hard code a link  <a href='page2.aspx?index=You%20%26%20I'></a>

The Request.QueryString on the Page_Load for page 2.aspx is reading index="You & I".

For some reason the Browser is converting my dynamically rendered links.

I will try to create a work around, like using another character to represent the "&" and replacing it back on page load.  I just don't see any other solution.

It appears to be working in all 3 Browsers now.  

What I needed to do was after using the variable I retrieved from the query string, I had to remember to replace all instances of the "&" with "%26" before I rendered the variable a second time inside an <a> tag.