Looking for simple container control

[Kevin Spencer]

The problem is that you want to nest this control inside of a table, in
fact, in between rows of the table. For this, you would need to create your
own custom Server Control.

HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
Internet Developer
[url]http://www.takempis.com[/url]
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lots of Little things.

"Jerad Rose" <jeradr@corvusdigital.com> wrote in message
news:egQSiwyODHA.2224@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> Hi gang. I tried posting this under a different topic (Dynamically
> Show/Hide Groups of TR's), but I thought maybe rewording the topic and

post

> may help people to undersand my intentions.
>
> I'm looking for a simple container control that can wrap around a set of
> HTML/server controls just for server-side purposes (show/hide) -- without
> rendering any HTML. This seems like it would be a common practice, but

I've

> not been able to find such a server control.
>
> An asp:PlaceHolder would be perfect since it doesn't render any additional
> HTML, but it doesn't allow any other nested <asp:> server controls at

design

> time (which seems silly). And an asp:Panel can wrap around any HTML or
> server controls, but it renders HTML (div in IE and table in Netscape --
> which really hoses the HTML). And a <span runat=server> doesn't like

nested

> TRs (see example below), plus that's still rendering HTML. And I know

that

> in the example below, I can just put runat=server on the TRs, but that's
> still not what I'm looking for (in my real-life scenario, I may have

several

> TRs, and it would be much easier to group them into one container).
>
> Here is a pseudo-example, so you can see what I'm trying to accomplish:
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="4"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <asp:SomeContainerControl>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> </asp:SomeContainerControl>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> Thanks so much in advance for any suggestions you may have!
>
> Jerad
>
>

[pepsi]

Hello,

I would suggest a simple div tag... you could assign it a
id and runat server. It should work.

pepsi

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi gang. I tried posting this under a different topic

(Dynamically

>Show/Hide Groups of TR's), but I thought maybe rewording

the topic and post

>may help people to undersand my intentions.
>
>I'm looking for a simple container control that can wrap

around a set of

>HTML/server controls just for server-side purposes

(show/hide) -- without

>rendering any HTML. This seems like it would be a common

practice, but I've

>not been able to find such a server control.
>
>An asp:PlaceHolder would be perfect since it doesn't

render any additional

>HTML, but it doesn't allow any other nested <asp:> server

controls at design

>time (which seems silly). And an asp:Panel can wrap

around any HTML or

>server controls, but it renders HTML (div in IE and table

in Netscape --

>which really hoses the HTML). And a <span runat=server>

doesn't like nested

>TRs (see example below), plus that's still rendering

HTML. And I know that

>in the example below, I can just put runat=server on the

TRs, but that's

>still not what I'm looking for (in my real-life scenario,

I may have several

>TRs, and it would be much easier to group them into one

container).

>
>Here is a pseudo-example, so you can see what I'm trying

to accomplish:

>
><table>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="4"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <asp:SomeContainerControl>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> <td colspan="2"><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
> </asp:SomeContainerControl>
> <tr>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> <td><asp:Label /></td>
> </tr>
></table>
>
>Thanks so much in advance for any suggestions you may

have!

>
>Jerad
>
>
>.
>