difference between html and webcontrol ?

[gabriel]

greetings,

I understand the difference when the webcontrol generates its html with
feeding its Text property but not the following :

<input name="login" type="text" size="8" id="login" runat="server">
<asp:textbox id="txtUserName" runat="server" width="160px">


both run on the server, both have a protected field.

Is it 2 ways of doing the same thing ???

many thx !

 

[Karl Seguin]

Scott has a nice write up:
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/348.aspx

Sometimes you don't have a choice to use one (htmlfileinput) or the other
(datalist)...I like to think that HtmlControls are mostly there to help
people get their ASP/HTML pages quickly converted to ASP.Net (slap on a
runat="server" and an id and voila...)

Karl