Question

I’m trying to programtically write out an h1 tag in .net. I’m sure I’ve done this in the past but cannot remember how its done. I thought there was a property of the label class where the output tag could be changed.

Answer 1

You can use a Literal control and set it to PassThrough mode. This is the easiest way for the hr tag

Literal myTag = new Literal {Mode = LiteralMode.PassThrough, Text = "<hr/>"};

You can find more information here

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If you are creating an h1 tag then you should use this

HtmlContainerControl myTag = (HtmlContainerControl)new HtmlGenericControl("h1");

This will allow you to add controls to the contents of the tag.

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You shouldn’t use the standard HtmlGenericControl for the hr tag because the implementation doesn’t allow tag self-closing. The hr tag would be written as <hr></hr> instead of <hr/>. But you can make it self closing with a little work, by overriding the control. See here for details