WebControl HTML Rendering

[paul]

Is there a way to retrieve the HTML of a WebControl (ie DataList) after it has been rendered
Let's say the DataList renders the below HTML after it's been databinded

<table id="DataList1" cellspacing="0" border="0" ><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="2"><tr><td valign="top" width="100%" colspan="2"
Product Her
</td></tr></table></table>

What I was hoping for was a property of the DataList (ie DataList1.HTML) which would put the above into a string
No such property seems to exist
I thought maybe an attribute would be it (ie DataList1.Attributes["innerHTML"] but that raises an error

any help is greatly appreciate
thank
pau

 

[David Jessee]

Dim x As New tmpControl()

Dim sw As New System.IO.StringWriter()

Dim htw As New HtmlTextWriter(CType(sw, System.IO.TextWriter))

x.RenderControl(htw)

Dim controlHTML As String = sw.ToString()

Is there a way to retrieve the HTML of a WebControl (ie DataList) after it has been rendered?
Let's say the DataList renders the below HTML after it's been databinded.

<table id="DataList1" cellspacing="0" border="0" ><tr><td><table

Product Here
</td></tr></table></table>

What I was hoping for was a property of the DataList (ie DataList1.HTML)

which would put the above into a string.

No such property seems to exist.
I thought maybe an attribute would be it (ie

DataList1.Attributes["innerHTML"] but that raises an error.