Hi Hari,
Ya, I think the ComboBox may require some revisions to auto handle the encoding, which I thought it already did. I might be missing something as well.
Here's a sample demonstrating the scenario. Changing the < to an encoded "&lt;" does not appear to fix the problem either.
Example
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="Ext.Net" Namespace="Ext.Net" TagPrefix="ext" %>
<script runat="server">
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, DirectEventArgs e)
{
this.Label1.Text = this.ComboBox1.SelectedItem.Value;
}
</script>
<!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 runat="server">
<title>Ext.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form runat="server">
<ext:ResourceManager runat="server" />
<ext:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" />
<ext:Window
ID="Window1"
runat="server"
Title="Example"
Height="185"
Width="350"
Padding="5"
Layout="form"
DefaultAnchor="100%">
<Items>
<ext:ComboBox ID="ComboBox1" runat="server" FieldLabel="Gender">
<Items>
<ext:ListItem Text="<Unset>" />
<ext:ListItem Text="Male" />
<ext:ListItem Text="Female" />
</Items>
</ext:ComboBox>
</Items>
<Buttons>
<ext:Button runat="server" Text="Submit" OnDirectClick="Button1_Click" />
</Buttons>
</ext:Window>
</form>
</body>
</html>