Question

Is there a way to control how .Net sets the Name and ID property of my controls? I have some radio buttons for which I need the name to be the same. However if I set the ID property of the radio button control it sets the Name and the ID. I see no way to treat the ID and Name separately. So now all button’s ids are the same as well.

If you are thinking that I should be using a RadioButtonList to achieve this you may be right, but I have not found a way to include table structure in a dynamically created RadioButtonList.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes.

Declare a descendant class from, say, a textbox, which overrides the UniqueID and ClientID properties. Then, use (in this example) MyControls.Textbox instead of the built-in textbox.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;


    namespace MyControls
    {
        public class Textbox : System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
        {
            public override string ClientID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }

            }

            public override string UniqueID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }
            }

        }

        public class Button : System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button
        {

            public override string ClientID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }

            }

            public override string UniqueID
            {
                get
                {
                    return ID;
                }
            }
        }
    }

Note that you’ll need to register your controls in web.config:

<pages>
  <controls>
    <add tagPrefix="mycontrols" namespace="MyControls" assembly="MyAssembly" />
  </controls>
</pages>

Then you can reference them in your markup:

<mycontrols:TextBox id="myID" runat="server"/>