October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 UnleashedUsing the
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Using the Literal Control
The Literal control is similar to the Label control. You can use the Literal control to display text or HTML content in a browser. However, unlike the Label control, the Literal control does not render its content inside of a <span> tag.
For example, the page in Listing 2.4 uses a Literal control in the page’s <head> tag to dynamically modify the title displayed in the browser title bar. The current date displays in the Literal control (see Figure 2.3).
Figure 2.3. Modifying the browser title with a Literal control.
Listing 2.4. ShowLiteral.aspx
If you used a Label control in Listing 2.4 instead of a Literal control, ...