programming notes…
Jun
23
2009
Category : ASP.Net
IE8 has issues with many pages and it’s formatting.
So if you want IE8 to look like IE7 you can embed a meta tag in your pages.
What I have found is that the meta tag needs to be right under the <title> tag in your head before anything else.
Here’s the tag : <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=EmulateIE7″ />
Hope this helps!
Sep
21
2008
Category : ASP.Net
I’m sure there are reasons against it but I have come to prefer to use HTML controls over ASP.Net when possible. The reason is that I can perform standard Javascript functions on the control on the markup side without having to do all the Add.Attribute coding on the backend BUT I can still call the control from the code-behind.
To be able to call the control and do other code-behind work on this HTML control, I simply have to add this to the control of my markup: runat=”server”. For example, if I wanted to create an HTML textbox in my asp markup page but also wanted to be able to work with it in code-behind, I simply drag the HTML control to the canvas and then add the runat server in it’s tag like so:
<input id=”address1″ name=”address1″ runat=”server” size=”15″ type=”text” />
Then in your code behind you simply reference the control as such:
address1.Value = “whatever value I want it to equal”
it works great for me….
**BTW – I did find this useful table that you may need (although you shouldn’t need it with the above example). If you want to be able to declare an HTML control in your code behind, the following table tells you what .Net calls them.
| HTML Control | HTML representation | Declare as / Description |
| HTML Label | <div> | HtmlGenericControl |
| HTML Button | <input type=”button”> | HtmlButton |
| HTML TextBox | <input> | HtmlInputText |
| HTML TextArea | <textarea> | HtmlTextArea |
| HTML Password | <input type=”password”> | HtmlInputText |
| HTML Submit Button | <input type=”submit”> | HtmlInputButton |
| HTML Reset Button | <input type=”reset”> | HtmlInputButton |
| HTML Image Button | <input type=”image”> | HtmlInputImage |
| HTML CheckBox | <input type=”checkbox”> | HtmlInputCheckBox |
| HTML Radio Button | <input type=”radio”> | HtmlInputRadioButton |
| HTML DropDown | <select> | HtmlSelect |
| HTML ListBox | <select> | HtmlSelect |
| HTML Hidden Field | HtmlInputHidden | |
| HTML File Upload | <input type=”file”> | HtmlInputFile |
| HTML Anchor | <a> | HtmlAnchor |
| HTML Image | HtmlImage | |
| HTML Table | <table> | HtmlTable |
| HTML Span | <span> | HtmlGenericControl |
| HTML Div | <div> | HtmlGenericControl |
| HTML Flow Panel | <div ms_positioning=FlowLayout> | HtmlGenericControl |
| HTML Grid Panel | HtmlGenericControl | |
| HTML Horizontal Rule | <hr> | HtmlGenericControl |
