Sitcore turning html attribute asp call into string
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I am pretty new to sitecore as well as .net and am slowly getting the hang of it.  But I am stumped on this one as it seems to go against what I have read in formums and the sitecore documentation.  I am simply trying to add fields into attributes of an html tag.  For example I have this in the sublayout file.

    <title><%= Sitecore.Context.Item["Page Title"] %></title>
    <meta name="description" content='<%= Sitecore.Context.Item["Description"] %>' />

The resulting output on the preview is this.

    <title>Inputted Page Title</title>
    <meta name="description" content="<%= Sitecore.Context.Item["Description"] %>" />

Sitecore seems to be just grabbing it as a string.

Anyone seen this before or see where I may be going wrong?