I had this problem and it stemmed from me not declaring the hidden field in
the code behind.  So the server did it for me, changing the variable name.

Dave Debreceni
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sindall [mailto:rsindall@z...] 
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:34 AM
To: ASPX_Professional
Subject: [aspx_professional] Re: Problem with HIDDEN field name!!!


If i remove the runat=server, i get the result required!

But i need to be able to set the value of the field.

-----Original Message-----
From: Imar Spaanjaars [mailto:Imar@S...]
Sent: 03 October 2002 15:18
To: ASPX_Professional
Subject: [aspx_professional] Re: Problem with HIDDEN field name!!!


Is your hidden field hosted inside another control? If so, you are going to
have problems, as the ASP.NET runtime will add the ID attributes to make
every control within the application namespace unique.

Either try to move it outside a parent control, or remove the runat="server"
attribute.

Cheers,

Imar


At 03:02 PM 10/3/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've created a hidden input field.
>
>the code:
>
><input type="hidden" id="total" name="total" runat="server">
>
>but once it gets to the browser it looks like this
>
><input name="_ctl1:total" id="_ctl1_total" type="hidden" value="200" />
>
>this is of no use, when the external system I post this data to is 
>looking for 'total'
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