Question

I have a literal in my master page and in the code behind, sometimes I populate it with data and sometimes not. The literal is in a div so that I can access its value in javascript. The mark-up looks like this:

<div id="Literal1"><asp:literal .... ID="TheLiteral1" /></div>

How can I rewrite this so that if I don’t populate the literal, I don’t render the div that contains the literal.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just remove the div entirely and populate the Literal control with it when needed.

In the markup (see no div):

<asp:literal .... ID="TheLiteral1" />

In code behind:

TheLiteral1.Text = "<div id=\"Literal1\">...</div>";