Question

I am looking for a way to convert WebForm controls to text.

Is it possible to do this:

TextBox tx = new TextBox();
tx.Text = "test";

string html = tx.HTML();

Where html would be:

<input type="text" value="test"/>

Answer 1

 var sb = new StringBuilder();
 var htw = new HtmlTextWriter(new System.IO.StringWriter(sb, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

 var tx = new TextBox {Text = "test"};
 tx.RenderControl(htw);
 var html = sb.ToString();
 Response.Write(html);