absolutePositioning attribute of Custom webcontrol

[Alessandro Zifiglio]

Hi, does anybody know if its possible to code for the absolute positioning.
I have noticed that vs.net applies these attributes to any webcontrol. This
is how you are able to move your control around in the designer.
I'd like to include the left and top as properties of my custom control and
have them updated everytime the control is being moved in the designer.

This has to be possible somehow. Anybody ?

 

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Hi Alessandro,

Simply inheriting from WebControl should work. If you're inheriting from
Control you may be in trouble then.

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[Alessandro Zifiglio]

hi victor, I'm inheriting from a webcontrol. Is why i got the default top
and left css attributes added for my control and i'm able to drag it on the
vs.net designer. WHat i want is have top and left properties exposed by my
custom control and have it somehow associated with what vs.net does for me
at design time that way when i drag the control and as i move it the top
left are updated in the property gird as well as in html view.

So far i see vs.net does this for me automatically but in html view
Thanks for the resonse

 

[Alessandro Zifiglio]

Just in case someone else has this same need and is stuck like me, here is
what you need to do in order to retrieve left and top positions set by
vs.net on webcontrols when dragging them within the vs.net designer.

The designer automatically assigns CSS position information to our control.

To use this position information, we need to read it from the Style
collection which is a System.Web.UI.CssStyleCollection.


protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)

{