let's say we have datatable with "<a>12</a>" as rows.
when i try to bind it to gridview programmatically
I'm not getting href links like 12 But just a strings like "<a>12</a>"

Code:
Dim datatable as new DataTable
datatable.Columns.Add("No")

dim datarow1 ad DataRow = datatable.newrow()

datarow1(0) = "<a>12</a>"

datatable.rows.add(datarow1)

gridview1.DataSource = datatable
gridview1.DataBind()