Question

I have a MasterPage that inside its content section I added a FORM element.
When accessing that page, all my controls are renamed since the FORM is runat=server.
And thus when selecting in jquery, even the form has been renamed

How can I fix that?

thanks

Answer 1

With a master page, all elements will have ct100__etc appended to the ID of the element. This is a feature since its a naming container. Typically, the way to work around it is to use syntax like:

$("#<%= button.ClientID %>").click(..);

To access the longer ID’s, or rely on CSS classes to identify elements. Another trick is to wrap certain sections of the form with a DIV HTML element and give it an ID to target.

HTH.