Hello Imar,

On page 529, (step 9 of a Try It Out) you remove the runat attribute from the <ul> element and not from the <li> element.

I understand that you keep the runat="server" attribute in the <li> element because <li> will be replaced by all the repeated data items from the Pictures EntitySet at the server.

But why removing the runat attribute from <ul> ?

Thank you

Hi Antonius,

The <ul> is just a plain HTML element and is not accessed by server side code. Therefore, it doesn't need the runat attribute which saves you from some overhead (although it's just a tiny bit).

The <li> needs to run at the server as it's the replacement control for the actual data.

Does that help?

Imar

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