In my page, I have a div that look like this.
All is well as long a I don't use the design view. But I make a change in design view, my div get like this
I lose the style tag. Why do I keep losing the style tag each time a make a change in design view? And why it doesn't do it when I use this
Stéphane

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Stéphane

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Hey,

VS.NET 2003 has a habit of reformatting your code everytime you switch between views. It does that automatically. The nice thing is in 2005 it's not supposed to do that.

My guess is because you have static text in the image link that it doesn't remove it. Try this:

<div id="divTest" style="<% = GetStyle %>;">

Again, strictly a guess.

Brian

I tryed it with
but I got Well look like I'll have to wait for VS.NET 2005

Stéphane

Stéphane,

You are missing an important point of ASP.NET programming. You need to get away from the code-embedded-in-html ways of classic ASP. It's particularly applicable to your image. If you need a programmatically modifiable image tag, use the asp:image control and runtime code to change its image url:

    <asp:image id="imgLogo" runat="server" />

Runtime code (perhaps in page_load):

    imgLogo.ImageUrl = String.Format("{0}/images/{1}/LogoMain.gif", GetDistributor(), GetLanguage())

This makes all parts of the code much more readable and follows the proper programming model of web forms.

You can do the same thing with your div tag. However, because there is no div server control in .NET, the control will be an HtmlGenericControl:

    <div id="divTest" runat="server">

Runtime code:

    divTest.Attributes.Item("style") = GetStyle

If you follow these guidelines, you shouldn't experience VS.NET interfering with your markup and you'll have much better luck overall when dealing with web forms.

Peter
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Peter

Our product must be white label. We have decide to keep using the old way for the control that are use for the label. We don't want those control to be run at the server because they will use memory for nothing.

Stéphane

Hey,

<%= GetStyle %> is still run at the server. Peter's way of doing it adds the style attribute with no more processing efforts than <% %> way of doing it.

Brian

And not only will GetStyle run on the server, the whole div tag runs at the server.
*Everything* in your page, including whitespace, spaces etc will be seen as a server side control. You may not be able to talk to them directly if you do not define a declaration for them in the Code Behind, but they are server side controls anyway.,

Cheers,

Imar

And to harp on the subject...

Improper use of inline <% %> is actually MORE resource intensive then using the predesigned object model and server code methods supported by .NET.

Stéphane -

What do you mean by "white label"?

White label is use to descrive a program that you develop but is commercialise by a Company X using there name and mayby by your own company.

Stéphane