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I have a page with some controls, usercontrols etc.
when I change a div from plain <div id="foo"> to a <div id="foo" runat="server">
the layout complete changes.
why is that and how can I prevent it?
I’m using 2.0 .NET framework
Is it because .NET changes my id, which obviously I don’t want?
If you’re targetting the ID of the div control in CSS and then running the control at server, you’ll find it no longer applies the style.
This is because ASP.NET has a built in mechanism (INamingContainer) to ensure than you don’t have multiple controls named the same. It does this by adding container prefixes so you end up with:
The easiest way around this is to change it from working on an ID to working on a class:
Alternatively, I believe that XHTML requires that Divs have closing tags so use