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How to show a hyperlink in a text

I have a text which may contain some special characters like <b></b> or a link. I want the user to be able to click on the link and open it. TextBlock or RichTextBox seems doesn't show links in a proper way:
<RichTextBox >
<Paragraph>
click here: http://www.google.com
</Paragraph>
</RichTextBox>
How can I show a text like that in a page?
Update: seems my question isn't clear. I ask a server for content and it returns back to me something like this:
from <b><i><a href="http://www.google.com" rel=nofollow> lorem ipsom
NPR:

 tapped in front of you probably know Bill Gates...
I want to show this in a WINDOWS PHONE page. TextBlock doesn't render it well. how can I show it human readable?

The way to solve your problem I see in using of WebBrowser control.
Then, accordingly to the article, you should go with Javascript to manage the links clicking etc (unless you want the links would be opened automatically with standard logic of Windows Phone):
Script is disabled in the WebBrowser control by default. Set the
IsScriptEnabled property to true if you want to enable scripting in
your control. You can then call scripts using the InvokeScript method.
The ScriptNotify event occurs when JavaScript in the WebBrowser
control passes a string to managed code.
That's a bit tricky way, but if you want to go any other way, you would have to implement your own parser of the code and build the sentence with labels and custom hyperlinks (as in provided above suggestions from comments).

calling a javascript function in C#

Hi i wanted to show or hide duplicate records according to query. So, I need to know how to call the javascript function from C# codebehind.
<a onclick="Grid1.insertRecord(); return false;" id="a2" href="javascript:">Save</a>
When I click save i need to show a popup which i have written in javascript.
if (!exist)//exists is the query
{
System.Web.UI.Control my = FindControl("a2");
a2.Attributes.Add("onclick", "retrun HideDuplicate()");
This line returns an error saying "a2 doesnot exist in current context."

Why not use an asp.net LinkButton? It has a server side Click event and is accessible from c# code-behind.

The basic <a> tag is not turned into a control by asp.net unless you add a runat="server" to it. Its then turned into a HtmlGenericControl.
<a onclick="Grid1.insertRecord(); return false;" id="a2" href="#" runat="server">Save</a>
This might work for you - its not clear if you have more than one of these links on the page (such as in a row of a gridview?) or if its just on there once.
Also the way you have used javascript is not following best practices but thats a discussion for another day :)

MSDN documentation for programatic creation of client side callbacks without postback with an example where the code behind is in C# might give a good overview of how it is supposed to work in general.
In your case, the corresponding code-behind should implement the interface 'ICallbackEventHandler' and the two methods it describes. In addition, you would need two more client side Javascript functions to prepare and handle the callback, besides the executor/invoker (in your case, a 'save' method). However one of the additional two Javascript functions could be registered in the codebehind, as the example shows.

hover link info

how can i get the effect that when u point over a link an information is shown in a box which tells u what that link does.
its like when you hover over a link a box explains its action.
Can some1 help me out with a neat sample.
do i need to use the ajax - hovermenuextender for this??
Thanks

It depends on how fancy you want to be. I personally have found jQuery (AKA JavaScript) to answer the call here. qTip is a jQuery library that has some amazing pop-up "bubble" effects. Head over to their website and check out the various things you can do.
If you head to the qTip documentation (particularly this page), you can see how easy it is to replace "normal" link pop-ups with a much better looking tool tip. Code example shown below:
$('a[title]').qtip({ style: { name: 'cream', tip: true } })

Since you are using ASP.NET you could use ASPNET ToolTip; hover over the bulleted items in the link to see examples.

While using silverlight, is there a way to use a button to change the webpage?

I have an ASP.MVC application which has a silverlight app inside. I want to change the page when I click one of my buttons. Is there a way to make it?

I think the HtmlPage.Navigate method is probably what you're looking for.
You'll need the following using statement:
using System.Windows.Browser;
HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri("http://www.mypage.com/newPage.html"));
Just stick this guy in the click event of your button and it should do what you want.
Also, if you wish to navigate within your website, you can use a Relative URI, like so:
HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri("newPage.html", UriKind.Relative));

What should be done is to use the using System.Windows.Browser; statement, and the, in the click method, add the following code:
HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri("http://yourpagegoeshere.com"));
Thanks overhed!

Automated web browser?

For learning purposes I would like to automate some parts in a browser game, currently I am trying to fill out some simple text boxes, without any luck though. I've created a WebBrowser component on my form, loaded the website via it and tried this.
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("citizen_name").SetAttribute("", "myname");
When I click my "fill out text box" button nothing happens. The HTML part looks like this:
<input type="text" name="citizen_name" id="citizen_name" value="" class="field" tabindex="1" />
I am talking about the eRepublik.com game, appreciate any help.

Try this:
HtmlDocument document = this.webBrowser1.Document;
document.GetElementById("citizen_name").SetAttribute("value", "myname");

I usually take the following approach:
var someElem = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("some_id");
if (someElem != null)
{
someElem.InnerText = "Some value";
}
Some textareas of advanced editors cannot have their value set this way. To handle them I do something like the following:
someElem.Focus();
Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait("Some value");

For this kind of problems there are much more suitable environments.
The easiest to use is definitely userscripts.
What exactly do you want to learn? How to test web apps, or how to develop them?

You can use of course simple javascript that you include in your page, or better yet, using Greasemonkey , so you don't modify the "client" code.
But greasemonkey would only be an option for Firefox, Opera and Chrome. If you really need a full blown cross browser automation test suite, you could use Selenium IDE , that allows to record or script a series of interactions with a web page, that can be automatically run in any of its supported browsers.