Web Controls
Web controls are defined in the System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace and represent an alternative approach to HTML server controls. Like HTML controls, Web controls are server-side components that spring to life thanks to the runat="server" attribute. Unlike HTML controls, Web controls provide a programming interface that refactors the classic set of HTML attributes and events. For this reason, Web controls sometimes appear to be more consistent and abstract in the API design and richer in functionality, but they still generate valid markup. When hosted in .aspx pages, Web controls are characterized by the asp namespace prefix.
To a large degree, Web controls and HTML controls overlap and generate almost the same markup, although they ...
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