Question

If I want to manipulate an HTML tag’s properties on the server within an aspx page based on a master page i.e.

<a href='#' runat='server' ID='myLink'>My Link</a> 

For example to give the link a different class depending on the current page i.e.

if (Path.GetFileName(Request.PhysicalPath) == 'MyPage') { myLink.Attributes.Add('class','active'); } 

.NET changes the ID property of the link to something like

<a href='#' ID='ct100-foo-myLink'>My Link</a> 

Is there any way of stopping this from happening and keeping the original ID?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

AFAIK there is no way.

It shows the actual control tree, which is in this case masterpage-content-control.

However if you add an ID to the masterpage (this.ID = ‘whatever’) then you will see ‘whatever’ instead of ctl00 (which means control index 0).