Question

I have an ASP.NET website that is not passing the W3C XHTML validation.

It doesn’t pass validation because I place <div> content into a <asp:Label>, and so the resulting markup looks like:

<span><div>stackoverflow</div></span> <!-- INVALID; DIV INSIDE SPAN -->

However, after replacing all my <asp:Label> with <asp:Literal>, I get errors that <asp:Literal> cannot be nested inside another <asp:Literal>.

I don’t really understand how I’m suppose to be solving this, since <asp:Literal> sounds like it would have otherwise been exactly what I wanted.

Is the correct solution to use <asp:PlaceHolder>?

Answer 1

Try this solution

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

in code behind

div.InnerHtml = "<div>Example HTML</div>";