HtmlGenericControl

[jamauss]

Anybody know how to make the HtmlGenericControl output self-closing tags like instead of ? Should I set the InnerHtml or InnerText property to null or something like that?

[minhpc_bk]

Hi there, You can use the LiteralControl[^] instead.

[jamauss]

Actually, I'd rather use HtmlGenericControl so I can programatically add element attributes and have to concatenate strings together... Can I achieve this with HtmlGenericControl by overriding the render method or something?

[jamauss]

and "NOT" have to concatenate strings together, I mean.

[minhpc_bk]

Hi there, You can easily develop your own HtmlGenericControl by superclassing the HtmlGenericControl class in the .Net framework, the sample code looks something like:

public class CustomHtmlGenericControl : System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl
{
public CustomHtmlGenericControl(string tagName):base(tagName)
{
}

public CustomHtmlGenericControl():base()
{
}
                       
protected override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
	writer.WriteBeginTag(this.TagName);
	                   
	this.RenderAttributes(writer);
                     
	this.RenderChildren(writer);
                      
	writer.Write("/>");
}

}

In addition, you can also override the Render method in the way that you first get the rendered html markup as normal, then simply replace the text ></TagName> with the />, and finally write out the result to the writer.

[jamauss]

Hey, thanks for that...works great.