Hi Luke,
You can't do that directly. However, it's easy to create function that accepts a Control and returns the HTML from the rendered control.
The following article shows you how to do this:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/091102-1.aspx
HtH,
Imar
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