CssClass property not recognized by Inherited WebControl?

[Dave]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom Linkbutton control by inheriting from WebControls

[ToolboxData("<{0}:MyLinkButtonrunat=server></{0}:MyLinkButton>")]
[ParseChildren(false)]
public class MyLinkButton: WebControl , IPostBackEventHandler
.....

I define my control in the aspx as:

<CustomControls:MyLinkButton id="lbtnGetData" CssClass="LinkButton" runat="server" >View Data</CustomControls:MyLinkButton>

However, the value in CssClass seems to be ignored and "class=" is not outputed to the HTML? Is there something else I need to implement?

Any help would be appreciated..Thanks, Dave.

 

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Hi Dave,

My guess is that you're overriding Render and breaking WebControl's own
rendering thus causing that property to not be properly rendered.
If you could post some code, that would really help in understanding whats
going on,

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom Linkbutton control by inheriting from WebControls

[ToolboxData("<{0}:MyLinkButtonrunat=server></{0}:MyLinkButton>")]
[ParseChildren(false)]
public class MyLinkButton: WebControl , IPostBackEventHandler
.....

I define my control in the aspx as:

<CustomControls:MyLinkButton id="lbtnGetData" CssClass="LinkButton"

However, the value in CssClass seems to be ignored and "class=" is not

outputed to the HTML? Is there something else I need to implement?

 

[Dave]

Victor,

Thanks for the reply! It seems that's what I was doing but I'm not out of the woods yet. I'm creating a custom LinkButton to add some javascript after the postback by writing out the "<a>" tag contents below.

By adding base.Render(writer) last, it displays the "class" etc that I was missing before, but now it's appears within "<span>". How to do "inject" my custom "<a>" tag into the writer...Thanks again. Dave.


public class LinkButtonFromWebControl : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
string sOutPut = "<a id=\"" + this.ClientID + "\" href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('" + this.ClientID + "', '');alert('run some javascript here);\">" + LinkText + "<a/>";

output.Write(sOutPut); //this writes out the link I created, but with no "class="

base.Render(writer); //this will add the "class=" as specified in design time but will will be span tag instead of an anchor tag.

I need to some how combine these two lines...

}

Hi Dave,

My guess is that you're overriding Render and breaking WebControl's own
rendering thus causing that property to not be properly rendered.
If you could post some code, that would really help in understanding whats
going on,

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom Linkbutton control by inheriting from WebControls

[ToolboxData("<{0}:MyLinkButtonrunat=server></{0}:MyLinkButton>")]
[ParseChildren(false)]
public class MyLinkButton: WebControl , IPostBackEventHandler
.....

I define my control in the aspx as:

<CustomControls:MyLinkButton id="lbtnGetData" CssClass="LinkButton"

However, the value in CssClass seems to be ignored and "class=" is not

outputed to the HTML? Is there something else I need to implement?

Any help would be appreciated..Thanks, Dave.

 

[Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]]

Dave,

By what you have described you don't really need to override the Render method. You should be fine by just override RenderContents and using WebControl base ctor to specify the tag for your control is an anchor, i.e.:

[C#]
public class MyLinkButton : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl
{
MyLinkButton () : base (HtmlTextWriterTag.A) {}

protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer) {

}

}

If you want to add attributes to the opening tag then you should override AddAttributesToRender method.

This may seem more complex than just overriding Render and doing all the stuff in there, but its really not and its a much cleaner way to accomplish what you want.

Hope that clears thing a bit and let me know if you have any other questions,

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

Victor,

Thanks for the reply! It seems that's what I was doing but I'm not out of the woods yet. I'm creating a custom LinkButton to add some javascript after the postback by writing out the "<a>" tag contents below.

By adding base.Render(writer) last, it displays the "class" etc that I was missing before, but now it's appears within "<span>". How to do "inject" my custom "<a>" tag into the writer...Thanks again. Dave.


public class LinkButtonFromWebControl : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
string sOutPut = "<a id=\"" + this.ClientID + "\" href=\"javascript:__doPostBack('" + this.ClientID + "', '');alert('run some javascript here);\">" + LinkText + "<a/>";

output.Write(sOutPut); //this writes out the link I created, but with no "class="

base.Render(writer); //this will add the "class=" as specified in design time but will will be span tag instead of an anchor tag.

I need to some how combine these two lines...

}

Hi Dave,

My guess is that you're overriding Render and breaking WebControl's own
rendering thus causing that property to not be properly rendered.
If you could post some code, that would really help in understanding whats
going on,

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom Linkbutton control by inheriting from WebControls

[ToolboxData("<{0}:MyLinkButtonrunat=server></{0}:MyLinkButton>")]
[ParseChildren(false)]
public class MyLinkButton: WebControl , IPostBackEventHandler
.....

I define my control in the aspx as:

<CustomControls:MyLinkButton id="lbtnGetData" CssClass="LinkButton"

However, the value in CssClass seems to be ignored and "class=" is not

outputed to the HTML? Is there something else I need to implement?

Any help would be appreciated..Thanks, Dave.