Question

When you have an ASP control like this:

<asp:TreeView ID="TreeItems" runat="server"></asp:TreeView>

The html that it generates mangles the names. If I want to access the ids of the generated items directly, I can try and figure out what it mangles the names to and look for that ID.

Are the names of the items generated guaranteed to be done in a specific way by whatever standard there is from Microsoft? I’m just afraid of this breaking if they release a new version of .NET that does it in a different way. Is there a way to generate the name mangling myself in code?

Answer 1

It isn’t guranteed to be consistent (it’s an implementation detail)

Use ClientID instead (which gives you the generated id).