<br> and HtmlGenericControl - VS2003

[Marius Horak]

I just wanted to add 'new line' within a cell using

myCell.Controls.Add(new HtmlGenericControl("br");

But what I got in HTML is
<br>
</br>

and this produces two new lines.

How can I create 'new line' using code (C#)?

I looked at
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_paragraphs and it
seems that <br> should not have </br>.

Is my VS2003 faulty or am I missing something?

Thanks

MH

 

[Marius Horak]

You could just simply output a LiteralControl with <br> as text value.

LiteralControl lc=new LiteralControl("<br>");
myCell.Controls.Add(lc);

Yeah, it's what I've done.

Shame on you M$. Such simple thing and you could not get it right.

MH

 

[Teemu Keiski]

It is because HtmlGenericControl inherits from HtmlContainerControl so
probably it assumes tags are always containing ones, i.e it has opening and
closing tag. Generally such case should be handled with rendering, but
indeed that doesn't much give hope with dynamically creating controls (which
leads to using LiteralControl or inserting br into Cell's Text)

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Teemu Keiski
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Mansoft tietotekniikka Oy
http://www.mansoft.fi

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