Question

I have ASP code like this:

<ext:Panel ID="pnlHelp" CtCls="help-panel" AnimCollapse="true"">
    <Content>
        <h1>some text</h1>
        <p>
            More text[...]
        </p>
    </Content>
</ext:Panel>

I would like to generate the <Content> tag dynamically using C#. I tried this, like with regular HTML tags:

<ext:Panel ID="pnlHelp" CtCls="help-panel" AnimCollapse="true"">
    <Content>
        <% Response.Write("<h1>some text</h1>"); %>                             
        <p>
            More text[...]
        </p>
    </Content>
</ext:Panel>

But the text ends up somewhere near the beginning of the page where I didn’t intend it to go. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You output appears on the top of the page because your Response.Write() is being executed before page content is put to respose.

Why not just

<%="<h1>some text</h1>" %> 

You can create a method that will return a string and call it from your *.as?x file:

protected string GetMyCoolHtml()
{
    return "<h3>this is my text</h3>";
}

....

<%= GetMyCoolHtml() %>