Setting the Style Sheet class

jacob · August 5th, 2003, 02:21 PM

Hi...

I am doing a series of web pages where user interfaces are a central part; that is, input text fields, textareas, radio buttons etc. Due to the fact that I do not want to do it manually I have made a database representation of a UI, and then creating the UIs dynamically, however...

When using objects as HtmlInputText, HtmlTextArea etc. (the HTML server controls) I canont set the style (CSS) dynamically

. The Web controls have got a property CssClass which would be great to have however this is not the case.

Is there a way, which is not a hack, to solve this? There must be others having this problem. Naturally you could do the hack, like...

Code:

new LiteralControl("<INPUT TYPE='text' CLASS='someClass'>")

however this is not nice! Didn't Microsoft thought of this!?

Thanks
Jacob.

planeswalk · August 13th, 2003, 02:22 AM

Hi,

Actually there is a way for you to access and dynamically modify the styles (CSS) for HTML Controls. You use the Attributes collection for the HTML server control like so:

<script runat="server">
  ...
    myinput.Attributes("class") = "classname_1"
  ...
    myinput.Attributes("class") = "classname_2"
  ...
</script>
  ...
<input type="text" id="myinput" runat="server" />
  ...

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jacob · August 18th, 2003, 09:36 AM

thanks, just what i needed :D

I used the following in C#

Code:

control.Attributes["class"] = "inputControl";

Jacob.

melvik · August 18th, 2003, 09:52 AM

Will u change the class in runtime?!? if not write it in <asp:*** tag

Always:),
Hovik Melkomian.

KenSchaefer · August 20th, 2003, 01:53 AM

[Don't bother reading this - I didn't see that you were using HTML Controls not Web Controls]

Cheers
Ken