How to avoid asp:UpdatePanel duplicate my contents? - asp.net

I'm creating a webpage that refreshes every 5 seconds to show how much order is left. The problem is after it's refreshed, my contents starts to duplicate.
Here, the brief of my problems :
I'm showing :
Order Offline : 1 / Order Online : 0.
After Refresh, it will be :
Order Offline : 11 / Order Online : 00.
I refresh the page with with asp:UpdatePanel Triggers and asp:Timer event
I've tried googling for the answer and mostly I found answers by setting the ViewState to Disabled and also I've tried to change UpdateMode to Conditional
Here is my code's snippets :
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="ScriptManager1" />
<asp:Timer ID="Timer1" runat="server" Interval="5000"></asp:Timer>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-2">
<asp:ImageButton ImageUrl="image.png" Width="170" ID="ClsBtn" runat="server" />
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4" style="text-align: right;">
<span id="date" style="font-size:10px; font-weight: 900;"></span>
<span id="time" style="font-size:10px; font-weight: 900;"></span>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4" style="text-align: right;">
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="upTQ" runat="server">
<Triggers><asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" /></Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: 900;">OFFLINE : <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="phTotalQueue" /> / ONLINE : <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="phTotalQueueM" /></span>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</div>
and this is my code behind :
phTotalQueue.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("" & dtTO.Rows(0).Item("TotalOrderOffline") & ""))
phTotalQueueM.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("" & dtTO2.Rows(0).Item("TotalOrderOnline") & ""))
I expect the output to be Order Offline : 1 / Order Online : 0. with no duplicate contents.

Let's first understand what happens: Your page is generated on the server, sent out to the browser, where it is displayed and then, each time it is being refreshed the server is requested and at that time, a LiteralControl is added to phTotalQueue and phTotalQueueM, respectively. Each time this runs, the controls already existent in phTotalQueue and phTotalQueueM, respectively will remain there, displaying the older values, but a new such control is being generated, displaying the new value besides the older values. I would like to kindly advise you to make sure you have an identifiable LiteralControl in your UpdatePanels, having an ID:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="upTQ" runat="server">
<Triggers><asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" /></Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: 900;">OFFLINE : <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="phTotalQueue"><asp:Literal ID="phTotalQueueText" runat="server"></asp:Literal>
</asp:PlaceHolder> / ONLINE : <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" ID="phTotalQueueM"><asp:Literal ID="phTotalQueueMText" runat="server"></asp:Literal></asp:PlaceHolder></span>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
Now, since you have identifiable LiteralControl instances, let's change the code-behind:
phTotalQueueText.Text = "" & dtTO.Rows(0).Item("TotalOrderOffline") & ""
and
phTotalQueueMText.Text = "" & dtTO2.Rows(0).Item("TotalOrderOnline") & ""
Alternatively you can remove the old controls from your UpdatePanels, or find them and modify their Text attribute, but those are hacky ways and I recommend the usage of identifiable tags.

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