HTML flexibility in ASP.NET

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Hello all,

I have heard that you can not fully control your pages with HTML in ASP.NET as in PHP. Is that right? Please give details.

Regards,

Dreamer

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Yes, that is true. But I was more thinking of a newbie just starting out, as they might/probably will not find that and will not realise the ID to be a problem straight off the bat. And they may also not be using .net 4.

But yes, that is a very good point. Glad you mentioned it.

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Thank you all, so do you mean that ASP.NET provides flexibility in editing HTML markup like PHP?

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And you can get pretty darned near complete control in webforms if you need it . . .

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Well, if you know what you doing and/or using MVC. Then yes, you can fully control the HTML.

The only thing about asp.net is the renames all the id and name tags on a page to make sure they are all unique. But only on controls that is set to runat=“server”

If you want full control over html, i would suggest MVC. As the asp.net controls for web apps generate their own html and you will need to know what you are doing to control it/use the correct control

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With ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms, we now have control over how the id is generated:

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Yes, it does. And webforms lets you place all you code in a seperate file.

HTML - default.aspx
Code - default.aspx.cs

So it keeps things seperate and easier to read