Hi- I have a page that contains database-generated dynamic html content. I use a string builder to create the html for the page based off of a SQL stored procedure. Once the string builder is finished, the string is placed in a literal control's text property for display on the page.

Within the content, there are html checkboxes that have javascript onclick events that add content. Basically, if the checkbox is checked, new html items are visible (a couple dropdowns or textareas).

I have a need to generate an email that contains the page's content, INCLUDING the dynamically generated items. When I view the literal control's text property, I do not see any of the dynamically created content.

Is there any way to get at that content without having to recreate it?

Any ideas appreciated, thanks!

You need to make sure the dynamically created controls have names. Then you retrieve their values using: in the postback.

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Joe
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Thanks for your response.

I'm not trying to find each individual dynamically created item by its name; I was hoping to find a way to get to the Literal that is already on the page with the new dynamic html items in its text. Using the Literal.Text was what I was hoping for, but that only contains the original stripped down text without the javascript added items.

Am I going to have to find each of those new items individually by name and get their values? I was hoping there would be a way to capture the dynamically created items without having to do that.

I've already started writing something that will basically recreate the whole string builder, but it seems like there would be an easier way to capture the page's rendered content including dynamic items created by javascript.

When you add new stuff to a page using script it only gets added to the in-memory model of the browser, not the actual HTML you see in view-source. Therefore you can't retrieve it using the technique you tried. Dynamic controls are difficult to manage in ASP.NET but it shouldn't be difficult to use a standard naming system on the controls, e.g. a prefix followed by an index and then loop through the form elements testing the names to get at their values.

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Joe
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Ok, thanks a lot Joe. I was just trying to see if there was a super-expedient obvious answer I was missing.

I've found another way to get it done; sometimes clients want it now rather than later, no matter what. It works, but I basically recreated the string using another db trip- not efficient, I know, but it's ready for testing today, which was what they expected.