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This is the base class for all HTML server controls. It includes basic functionalitylike the Disabled property, which you can use to make a control read-only, and the TagName property, which identifies the HTML tag that underlies this control (for example, "div" or "a").

Additionally, you can set and retrieve various other properties through the weakly typed Attributes collection, which contains a name/value collection of all the attributes applied to a tag. You can add a new attribute by assigning to it, as in MyText.Attributes["onblur"]="javascript:alert('Focus lost!');";. This statement, which adds a client-side JavaScript event through an attribute, is the equivalent of using the tag <input type="text" id="MyText" onblur="javascript:alert('Focus lost!');" runat="server"/>. Some attributes may be provided as properties in the derived class. Another dictionary collection, Style, allows you to specify CSS properties for a tag (as in MyText.Style["width"] = "120px").

(Refer to

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) for more information on different HTML and CSS tag elements.)

public abstract class 
HtmlControl  : System.Web.UI.Control, System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor {
// Public Constructors
public 
HtmlControl ( );
public 
HtmlControl (string 
tag );
// Public Instance Properties
public AttributeCollection 
Attributes {get; }
public bool 
Disabled {set; get; }
public CssStyleCollection 
Style {get; }
public virtual string 
TagName {get; }
// Protected Instance Properties
protected override bool 
ViewStateIgnoresCase {get; }           // overrides System.Web.UI.Control
// Protected Instance Methods
protected override ControlCollection 
CreateControlCollection ( ); // overrides System.Web.UI.Control  
protected override void 
Render (System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter 
writer );  // overrides System.Web.UI.Control
protected virtual void 
RenderAttributes (System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter 
writer );
protected virtual void 
RenderBeginTag (System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter 
writer );
}

Hierarchy

System.Object System.Web.UI.Control(System.ComponentModel.IComponent, System.IDisposable, System.Web.UI.IParserAccessor, System.Web.UI.IDataBindingsAccessor) HtmlControl(System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor)

Subclasses

HtmlContainerControl, HtmlImage, HtmlInputControl