After some research on about the answers supplied for my previous questions, I have come across two further questions which I would like to ask. They are:
1. How come this aspx page is able to run fine in the web browser when the page seems to be devoid of html main tags, like <html> <body> etc. I've had a look at the custompanel code and and it is basically just some content tags in a <div>.
2. All the examples I have found on the web about custom controls are like this <tag /> tags. What does it mean when a custom control encases another custom control? How do you leave space in the first custom control for the render code of the second custom control (if that is indeed the purpose)?
Here is the class for customcontrol if that helps:
namespace Dcoms.Web.UI.ServerControls
{
public class CustomPanel : Panel
{
public int StyleNumber
{
.......
}
public virtual string HeaderText
{
...
}
/// <summary>
/// We want to add 2 container - the first div being the header container
/// and the second div being the main container
/// </summary>
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
string styleNumber = StyleNumber.ToString();
string headerCssClass = "CustomPanel" + styleNumber + "Header";
string contentCssClass = "CustomPanel" + styleNumber + "Content";
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, headerCssClass);
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
writer.Write(this.HeaderText);
writer.RenderEndTag();
writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, contentCssClass);
writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
base.RenderContents(writer);
writer.RenderEndTag();
}
}
}
aspx elements seemingly appearing out of nowhere.
