Question

All example skins I’ve seen use <div id="SomethingSomethingPane" runat="server"></div>. Is it possible to use something other than a div? Ideally I’d like to use something that doesn’t require additional HTML mark up, such as an <asp:Literal> tag.

Answer 1

You have four methods at your disposal for creating Panes in a DNN Skin, as of DNN 5

TD

<table>
  <tr>
    <td id="ContentPane" runat="server"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

DIV

<div id="ContentPane" runat="server" />

SPAN

<span id="ContentPane" runat="server" />

P

<p id="ContentPane" runat="server" />

If you need to remove the tag altogether, have some jquery run upon page load that strips that tag (select by ID), although an empty span is pretty harmless in most cases.

References

• Page 468 of this book – div, span, td
• DNN Source – p, search for “//load the skin panes”