Set Color to Elements in my control

[Angel]

I am trying to set HTML elements in my server control to the ForeColor setting for the control. For example I create a server control which I inherit from WebControls. WebControls exposes the ForeColor property of the control. Now in my code I render certain tags in which I want to set its Style attribute "color" to what the developer selected in the ForeColor of the control.

writer.writeBeginTag("DIV")
writer.writeAttribute("ID", "TEST")
writer.writeAttribute("STYLE", "COLOR: " & Me.ForeColor.ToString & ";")

The Me.ForeColor is the Control ForeColor setting. Unfotunately when I test this piece of code and I view the source it does writes the TAG this way when I view the source for the HTML.

<DIV ID="TEST" STYLE="COLOR: color white">

HTML does not recognize this coding so it does not set the color. I tried setting this setting in my code:

writer.writeBeginTag("DIV")
writer.writeAttribute("ID", "TEST")
writer.writeAttribute("STYLE", "COLOR: " & Me.ForeColor.ToArgb & ";")

And it wrote this in the HTML Source:

<DIV ID="TEST" STYLE="COLOR: -1">

HTML Did not recognize this either. So How can I convert the color in the property of the control to something that will be written correctly when the HTML is built? Is there a Hex function that can call on the ForeColor property to return the Hex value and then write it to the HTMLWriter stream?

thanks...

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

see System.Drawing.ColorTranslator class. It can convert a Color to HTML
representation and back (as well as to other presentation formats)

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I am trying to set HTML elements in my server control to the ForeColor

setting for the control. For example I create a server control which I
inherit from WebControls. WebControls exposes the ForeColor property of the
control. Now in my code I render certain tags in which I want to set its
Style attribute "color" to what the developer selected in the ForeColor of
the control.

writer.writeBeginTag("DIV")
writer.writeAttribute("ID", "TEST")
writer.writeAttribute("STYLE", "COLOR: " & Me.ForeColor.ToString & ";")

The Me.ForeColor is the Control ForeColor setting. Unfotunately when I

test this piece of code and I view the source it does writes the TAG this
way when I view the source for the HTML.

<DIV ID="TEST" STYLE="COLOR: color white">

HTML does not recognize this coding so it does not set the color. I tried

setting this setting in my code:

writer.writeBeginTag("DIV")
writer.writeAttribute("ID", "TEST")
writer.writeAttribute("STYLE", "COLOR: " & Me.ForeColor.ToArgb & ";")

And it wrote this in the HTML Source:

<DIV ID="TEST" STYLE="COLOR: -1">

HTML Did not recognize this either. So How can I convert the color in the

property of the control to something that will be written correctly when the
HTML is built? Is there a Hex function that can call on the ForeColor
property to return the Hex value and then write it to the HTMLWriter stream?