VeganMan,

From your questions it sounds a bit like you are asking "How can I use CSS to customize a single instance of a control that use standard styles?"

Let's say you have a style that is normally applied to all your text boxes:

   <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" CssClass="myTextBox"></asp:TextBox>

But you want to modify this one a bit. Maybe you want a green border instead of the standard one. So you create a style for the green border. You can supplement the standard style by adding another style class to the control:

   <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" CssClass="myTextBox greenBorder"></asp:TextBox>

As long as the classes are assigned to the control in the correct order and the style rules are in the correct order to cascade properly, you can chain the css classes on a single control. (It might even be the case that the style application will be dictated by the classes on the control rather than the normal cascade rules.)

-Peter
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Hi VeganMan,

Stay tuned.... Later chapters will explain and demonstrate this in more detail, and also explain *why* it happens....

Imar
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Well I've been using CSS for a couple of years now. I try to use css for everything that's possible, having my html down to the bare bones. I'm thinking in terms of accessibility, making the site more assessable for people with different types of disabilities. Using CSS makes it very easy.

I'm new to the asp.net framework though. So I tend to get ahead of myself and think outside the box. Before I got the book, I was playing around and putting my asp:??? tags in a <div #id="???"> <asp:???... <div> tag to control them rather than using CssClass. That was my next question. hehehe... can that be done.

Thank you planoie

Terry

You caught on to me Imar. Yes, the why's are important to me. I'm sort of a visual person so I often like to experiment so I can SEE why and not just KNOW why... I will ban myself from posting if I get too far from the topics. hahaha (book is kind of fun)

You certainly can wrap your asp controls inside of other HTML elements. Just be aware of how much more HTML you add when you may not need to. Also, use the browser view source function liberally so you can see what controls render to what HTML.

-Peter
peterlanoie.blog

Thanks for the advice Peter

In addition to all this, remember you can also use ID selectors for HTML that doesn't run on the server. E.g.:

<div id="MainMenu">

</div>

can always be referred to as #MainMenu. Since the <div> tag doesn't have a runat="server" attribute, it will never be changed.

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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