Chapter 14 Page 484

kiwibrit · August 12th, 2009, 11:28 AM

Just curious. At the top of page 484 you show:

Code:

<asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" ShowEditButton="True" ShowSelectButton="False" ItemStyle-Width="100px"></asp:CommandField>

Whereas, before I looked at your code, I had

Code:

<asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" ShowEditButton="True" ShowSelectButton="False" ItemStyle-Width="100px" />

I had no errors highlighted for my code - and it ran fine. Is there any particular merit in either form of closing - ie self closing, or using a closing tag - here?

Imar · August 12th, 2009, 11:46 AM

Hi there,

Nope, in this case it doesn't matter. Both result in the exact same behavior as this tag doesn't contain other content or controls. it only has a few attributes.

In VWD, under Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Format you can specifiy whether you want a closing tag or not when relevant. Click Tag Specific Options and you can fine tune this per tag.

Hope this helps,

Imar

kiwibrit · August 12th, 2009, 03:41 PM

Aha. Thanks.