Will the html affect my rankings with the search engines?

you can also wrap the controls in <divs> to inherit styling from the style sheet right? Nothing that way has changed?

All client rules style apply, so what used to work on divs and CSS in plain HTML still works.

With regards to Search Engines: it depends. Usually they can read HTML and subtract links. What's usually much more problematic is JavaScript navigation. Search engines can follow plain links, but they cant "click" buttons or links to go to other pages. So, the final HTML output of any web page (not only ASP.NET pages) is always worth considering.

Wrox has a great book out on Search Engine Optimization with ASP.NET that you may want tot consider: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...470131470.html

Cheers,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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I have the PHP version of that book. They are very well written.

I imagine the HTML itself has much less impact on ranking than the content does.

-Peter
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