pretty simple thing I am trying to do but I can't seem to be able to do it....

I need to display a converted SEF url in a webpage so a client can select & copy it.

is there a tag of some sort I can but around the url so that joomsef know that it must translate it?

exemple :

<div>index.asp?a=1&b=2</div>

should display as

<div>/patha/pathb/</div>

it work when I do it as a fake href tag but it is annoying to have the href"" around it:

<div>href="index.asp?a=1&b=2"</div>

give me :

<div>href="/patha/pathb/"</div>

is there a clean way of doing it?

You need to use PHP to achieve this:
<div><?php echo JRoute::_('index.asp?a=1&b=2'); ?></div>

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team