Me.Controls(0) vs. Me.Controls(1)

Guest · Oct 25, 2005

Hello All:

Does anyone know what Me.Controls(0) refers to? I know that Me.Controls(1)
refers to the form. Is Me.Controls(0) the Page?

TIA,

Karl Seguin · Oct 25, 2005

You could add a breakpoint in Page_Load and add a watch on the object.

It's a literal control. It contains (typically) everything from the top of
the page to the <body> tag. Here's a sample:

\r\n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\"

\r\n<HTML>\r\n <HEAD>\r\n <title>index</title>\r\n </HEAD>\r\n

<body>\r\n

ASP.Net parses pure HTML elements (ie, non-ASP.Net elements) into
LiteralControls. This is why you shouldn't reference things ordinally.

Karl

Guest · Oct 25, 2005

Hi Karl,

I reied to do some poking about in the Command- Immediate window and wasn't
able to find anything out. This helps.

I agree; I would not usually use ordinals but don't know what else s
available in this case. What else would you suggest for me to get a refernce
to the "Form control" other than Me.Controls(1) since controls only takes an
integer as it's argument?

Thanks,
--
Joe

VB.NET/C#/ASP.NET/ASP/VB/C++/Web and DB development/VBA Automation

Karl Seguin said:
You could add a breakpoint in Page_Load and add a watch on the object.

It's a literal control. It contains (typically) everything from the top of
the page to the <body> tag. Here's a sample:

\r\n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\"

\r\n<HTML>\r\n <HEAD>\r\n <title>index</title>\r\n </HEAD>\r\n

Click to expand...

<body>\r\n

ASP.Net parses pure HTML elements (ie, non-ASP.Net elements) into
LiteralControls. This is why you shouldn't reference things ordinally.

Karl

Karl Seguin · Oct 25, 2005

Well, you can give the form an id and use:

dim form as HtmlForm = ctype(Page.FindControl("Form1"), HtmlForm)

or, the most logical, you can simply declare your form as you would other
controls

public class MyPage
Inherits Page
protected form1 as HtmlForm

sub Page_Load
form1.XX
end sub
end class

Karl

--
MY ASP.Net tutorials
http://www.openmymind.net/

Joe said:
Hi Karl,

I reied to do some poking about in the Command- Immediate window and
wasn't
able to find anything out. This helps.

I agree; I would not usually use ordinals but don't know what else s
available in this case. What else would you suggest for me to get a
refernce
to the "Form control" other than Me.Controls(1) since controls only takes
an
integer as it's argument?

Thanks,

Guest · Oct 25, 2005

Thanks.

Bruce Barker · Oct 25, 2005

the Me.Controls is the collection of controls to be rendered on the page.
Control[0] will be markup before the first server control (which is
converted to a literal control), Control[1] will be the first server control
on the page, often but not always the form.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

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