Custom Control Block elements in the ASP.NET Designer

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 22 Aug 2006 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Getting an ASP.NET control to display properly in the designer can be a bit of the chore because the designer doesn’t do real well when it comes to rendering controls based on block tags, like <div> or <table>. The VS.NET designer renders controls into a block that appears to be a self-sizing <span> tag or equivalent, so if you have block content the designer usually mucks up the display.   For example, here’s a control that renders as a DIV in the designer:   The...

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