Chapter 4. ASP.NET Core Server Controls
ASP.NET pages are made of code, markup tags, literal text, and server controls. Based on the request, the server controls generate the right markup language. The ASP.NET runtime combines the output of all controls and serves the client a page to display in a browser. The programming richness of ASP.NET springs from the wide library of server controls that covers the basic tasks of HTML interaction—for example, collecting text through input tags—as well as more advanced functionalities such as calendaring, menus, tree views, and grid-based data display.
Key to ASP.NET control programming is the runat attribute. If a tag in the .aspx source is declared without the runat attribute, it is considered plain text ...
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