Best way to convert a decimal value to a currency string for display in HTML

Question

I wanting to show prices for my products in my online store. I'm currently doing:

<span class="ourprice">
     <%=GetPrice().ToString("C")%>
</span>

Where GetPrice() returns a decimal. So this currently returns a value e.g. "£12.00"

I think the correct HTML for an output of "£12.00" is "£12.00", so although this is rendering fine in most browsers, some browsers (Mozilla) show this as $12.00.

(The server is in the UK, with localisation is set appropriately in web.config).

Is the below an improvement, or is there a better way?

<span class="ourprice">
     <%=GetPrice().ToString("C").Replace("£","&pound;")%>
</span>

Answer 1

Try this, it'll use your locale set for the application:

<%=String.Format("{0:C}",GetPrice())%>