HTMLTable to Literal

I have a asp:Literal in a Masterpage that is exposed as a property.  I want to pass a table to it sometimes.  I can build the HTML by hand and it works fine, but I would like to use the HTMLTable to build the table and then get the HTML as a string to pass.  Something like: Master.aLiteral = myHTMLTable.ToHTML();  Is there a way to get the HTML from a HTMLTable?