Literal control - why?

[VB Programmer]

What's the real advantage to using a literal control over a simple label?
What are the pros/cons/typical usages for the literal control?

Thanks.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

A label renders a <span> tag. It allows you to programmatically change the
display characteristics of some text you want to display. A LiteralControl
renders exactly whatever static HTML you want it to. There is no general
advantage of using one over the other. One may be more useful than another
in certain circumstances. For example, if you want to display static text,
and make no programmatic changes to it, you might want to use a
LiteralControl.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
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of lots of little things.

 

[Raterus]

I think they only real difference is that it inherits from Control, not WebControl, so you can't apply a style to the text. It probably would be a bit faster to render in that aspect as well.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rfsystemwebuiwebcontrolsliteralclasstopic.asp

And you can't do this with a label control, in one line..

someControl.controls.add(new LiteralControl("any text I want rendered"))

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,


Usually I use a Literal to inject Javascript code to the client.

Cheers,