October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
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Understanding HTML Controls
You declare HTML controls in a different way than you declare standard ASP.NET controls. The ASP.NET Framework enables you to take any HTML tag (real or imaginary) and add a runat="server" attribute to the tag. The runat="server" attribute converts the HTML tag into a server-side ASP.NET control.
For example, the page in Listing 1.5 contains a <span> tag, which has been converted into an ASP.NET control.
Listing 1.5. HtmlControls.aspx
The <span> tag in Listing 1.5 looks just like a normal HTML <span> tag except for the addition of the runat="server" attribute.
Because the <span> tag in Listing 1.5 is a server-side ...