Question

So basically, I have a div which is runat=”server”

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

Now, I add HTML to this using jQuery.

$('.results').html('Some crazy data');

However, when I try to access the data in this DIV using C#, it says the DIV has no contents.

string myResults = results.innerHtml;

myResults is empty.

Can someone help me out? I’ve never seen this behavior before.

Many Thanks!

Answer 1

You may be looking for something like this…

<div id="results" runat="server" class="results"></div>
<input type="hidden" id="hiddenResults" runat="server" class="hiddenResults" />

$('.results').html('Some crazy data');
$('.hiddenResults').val('Some crazy data');

Now you can access the data on server

string myResults = hiddenResults.Value;