'FormView' must be placed inside a form tag

stephena.co.uk · October 15th, 2008, 05:38 AM

Hi,

I am new to ASP.net and to these forums. I have read similar post but been unable to determine a workaround for my problem.

The error i am getting is:

Code:

Control 'ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FormView1' of type 'FormView' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server.

I am using a master page and wanting to display a formview from my database in the content section. Everything looks great in design view until i try to view the page.

I have checked the code and there are two tags that contain runat="Server", maybe this is the problem!?!

Code:

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">

Code:

<asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server" DataKeyNames="fllog_ref" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" DefaultMode="Insert">

Whats the fix?

Ste

stephena.co.uk · October 15th, 2008, 07:56 AM

In its simplist for this also generates the error:

Code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="order_processing_add.aspx.vb" Inherits="order_processing_add" title="Untitled Page" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">
<div class="pagetitle">Order Processing Add<br />
    <asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server">
    </asp:FormView>

</div>
</asp:Content>

I have removed the runat="Server" from the asp:content tag and alternatly the asp:formview but it insist they must be there. Yet they cant both be there.

Surely you can display a FormView within a ContentPlaceHolder!?!

stephena.co.uk · October 15th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Hi,

For everyone else benefit i thought i would post the solution which i have eventually figured out for myself...

I used the design view to insert my contentplaceholder but the code generated had the contenplaceholder outside of the form tags.

I moved the content within the form tags:

<form id="form1" runat="server"><asp:contentplaceholder id="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server"></asp:contentplaceholder></form>

And it worked!

Simple really yet its wasted a good two hours of my day!