I have a label element as below:
<asp:Label ID="date" runat="server" Text="<%$ Resources:Resource, DATE%>" CssClass="col-sm-4 control-label" />
When I render this in the browser somehow this gets generated to span element as below:
<span id="ctl00_MainContent_FormDate_Date" class="col-sm-4 control-label">Date</span>
which makes it look different on the page.
But when I use text instead of resource:
<asp:Label ID="date" runat="server" Text="Date" CssClass="col-sm-4 control-label" />
this renders correctly:
<label for="ctl00_MainContent_FormDate_Date" class="col-xs-4 control-label">Date</label>
Anyone come a cross this issue and how can I fix the issue to render as <label> when using resources?
Though I know you have already got the solution, I am answering for the future reader of the post.
If you set the Label.AssociatedControlID value it becomes a label element.
If it is not associated to a control or in other words not being used as a label element it becomes a span element.
A label which is not associated with a control is considered as a bad mark up. Hence if the label control is not assigned to a control, instead of placing a label .NET places that as a span element.
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Is there a simple way to do this? I have a checkbox and some text defined like so in an aspx file:
<div id="div01" class="someClass" runat="server">
<asp:CheckBox ID="chkBox01" Checked="True" runat="server" />
<asp:Label ID="lblSomeText" runat="server" Text="" meta:resourcekey="lblSomeText1"></asp:Label>
</div>
..the problem is that when rendered we have a checkbox and a span, and when the label's text is long enough the checkbox appears above the label, rather than at the left. The resulting html structure looks like:
<div>
<input type="checkbox"></input>
<span>some fairly long text</span>
</div>
I'd like to force that checkbox to be on the same line as the label no matter the text length. I can do this in html easily enough but is there a way to ensure it when coding the web components? I'm not a CSS pro and have tried some float:left and float:right stuff to no avail.
I have to create a web form in ASP.NET.
this is my HTML:
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="label" AssociatedControlID="DropDownList1"></asp:Label>
<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server"></asp:DropDownList>
</div>
<div>
<asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="label" AssociatedControlID="TextBox1"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
<div>
<asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text="" AssociatedControlID="Button1"></asp:Label>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
</div>
</form>
Is this the most customizable HTML code by CSS?
Do you usually write a different markup?
Your HTML looks fine to me. I wouldn't personally use all those divs but I also don't know your exact requirements.
Some people consider a a form to be a list and will code it as:
<ul>
<li>
<label ... />
<input ... />
</li>
</ul>
I don't do it this way and it depends on how you wish to describe your data.
Untimately your main consideration is how you want to describe the data you're marking up. What is the most semantic way and how does that fit in with how you want to style the data. Usually there's a middle ground if you've considered both things well.
I would also consider grouping your form fields logically using a <fieldset>. This will give you something extea to hook into with your CSS also.
We created wrapper controls that do pretty much what you described. Each of our server controls emits a div with a specified class, a label (if label text is set) and the control itself.
We've found this to be the absolute cleanest way to get the markup we want when it goes to the client; and it results in non-table forms.
We also have several classes defined such as "row", "shortRow", etc. that set the appropriate width of the outer div and others which control the label and control width.
I have been laying out a GUI uing ASP.NET and find I am confused by the rendering of the <asp:TextBox /> control. It seems as though some default margin is added to the left and right of the <input> control that is rendered by the ASP.NET TextBox. Below is an example of my code. The resultant <input> element does not align flush to the container <div>, even thought the text element above it ("Some Text") is aligned flush.
<div style="float:left;">
<b>Some Text</b>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtTextBox" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Style="width:300px;height:300px;" />
</div>
Quite by accident I found that if I first added a <p /> element as the first element in the <div> that the <input> element would align flush. Here is an example ...
<div style="float:left;">
<p />
<b>Some Text</b>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtTextBox" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Style="width:300px;height:300px;" />
</div>
Does anyone know why this is? Why does the <input> element not align flush to the <div>, yet when adding a <p /> do the <div> it does?
UPDATE - I found the issue was Internet Explorer compatibility mode. It was enabled and therefore not following the CSS rules. After disabling compatibility mode the textbox lined up properly. Thanks for all the answers. They were ALL great and helped me track down the problem. +1 to all. I answered the post so as to make it easier for future readers to find the answer.
I don't know what asp does with this and your p element is invalid in html as you have it. Remove that.
You probably need to set your padding or margin to zero on the input element.
Are you using a doctype?
I don't see any problem when I test your example, the TextBox is flush to the edge of the div at the top, right and bottom (with Some Text on the bottom left).
There must be other CSS affecting your layout.
I'd suggest using Firebug, IE's F12 developer tools or Chrome's Ctrl-Shift-J developer tools (dependent on your browser) to have a look at the HTML that's created. That should give you the answers you need.
I believe this is because <p> is a block element. You can do what you are wanting to do by adding a div around your inner content (nesting a div inside your existing div)
<div style="float:left;">
<div>
<b>Some Text</b>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtTextBox" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Style="width:300px;height:300px;" />
</div>
</div>
check if you have correct doctype on top of your page
use vertical-align style in the text container div: <span style="vertical-align:middle; font-weight:bold;">Some Text</span>
.
<div style="float:left;">
<span style="vertical-align:middle; font-weight:bold;">Some Text</span>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtTextBox" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Style="width:300px;height:300px;" />
</div>
I discovered what the issue was. I was using Internet Explorer v8 with compatibility mode enabled. I am not sure why it was enabled but as soon as I disabled compatability mode the textbox aligned just as it should.
I have a user control on a page of a website that generates a text box. The textbox has a width specified, but the text box is intermitently being shown at a much smaller width than is specified in the code. I asked the users to send me copies of the "view source" output so that I could compare good and bad results. By "intermittent", I mean similar builds - different computers. Please note that the bad results are ALWAYS displayed on the same "bad" computers (there is more than one user with this problem) and, conversely, the "good" computers (all with the same version of IE7 as the "bad" computers) always display "good" results.
When the page is displayed correctly, the html that is sent to the browser looks like this:
<input name="ShortDescription" type="text" maxlength="100"
id="ShortDescription" class="content" style="width:800px;" />
and when it renders incorrectly, it looks like this:
<input name="ShortDescription" type="text" maxlength="100"
id="ShortDescription" class="content" />
In both cases, the ASP.NET code is:
<asp:textbox id="ShortDescription" runat="server"
CssClass="content" Width="800px" MaxLength="100"> </asp:textbox>
I am not sure why the style tag is getting dropped. The above pages were both viewed in the same browser (IE7) on different computers. The computers have a corporate build so they "should" be configured the same.
I would appreciate any help!
Try setting the TextBox with in the CssClass, or as a style attribute parameter rather than using the Width attribute
<asp:TextBox id="ShortDescription" runat="server" CssClass="content" MaxLength="100" style="width: 800px" />
<style>.content { width: 800px }</style>
<asp:TextBox id="ShortDescription" runat="server" CssClass="content" MaxLength="100" />
Apply the min-width property.
In Your CSS Style Sheet
.Textbox
{
min-width:100%;
}
In Your *.aspx
<asp:TextBox CssClass="TextboxStyle" placeholder="Enter the Title" runat="server" ID="TextBox1"></asp:TextBox>
This will update your text box
In the past I've found that setting the width through your class itself, instead of using the width property of the textbox will make sure the control is rendered properly.
asp:textbox, which compiles to an input tag does not have a "width" attribute according to w3. It supports the "size" attribute. IE(678) would probably have a better time with the standard, where as other browsers are... looser in their interpretation.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/1995-archive/Elements/INPUT.html
for fix the width of text box
take one skin file and put the below code...
for example "skinFile.skin"
<textbox runat="server" width="200px"/>
......................................
after that put the following code into your aspx page.
Theme="SkinFile
for example...
<%# Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/AdminMaster.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="stu_resgistration.aspx.cs" Inherits="AdminSide_stu_resgistration" Title="Untitled Page" Theme="SkinFile"%>
I've received from a design agency the following html to be displayed in a form on one of asp.net webapps:
<label>
<input type="radio" />
Label Text 1
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" />
Label Text 2
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" />
Label Text 3
</label>
You can imagine that the output produced will place the radio button on the left of the label text.
Since the number of labels/radio buttons is variable I decided to use the RadioButtonList to dynamically manipulate the number of controls added.
The problem with the RadioButtonList is that the html produced by it is not very flexible.
The nearest that I got to the layout my customer wants is the following code. But this places the radio buttons on the right of the label. :(
<asp:RadioButtonList ID="DayOfWeekRadioButtonList" runat="server" RepeatLayout="Flow" RepeatDirection="Vertical" TextAlign="Left">
</asp:RadioButtonList>
And here is the generated HTML:
<label for="ControlID1">Text 1</label>
<input id="RadioControlID1" type="radio" name="NameRadioControlID1" value="Text 1" />
<label for="ControlID2">Text 2</label>
<input id="RadioControlID2" type="radio" name="NameRadioControlID2" value="Text 2" />
<label for="ControlID3">Text 3</label>
<input id="RadioControlID3" type="radio" name="NameRadioControlID3" value="Text 3" />
Is it possible to place the input control within the label?
You won't be able to get the RadioButtonList control to render the button inside the label as you describe without perhaps making a custom control to override the behavior.
As womp mentioned, you need to set TextAlign="Right" instead of "Left," or if you leave that attribute blank it should default to the expected behavior. Setting it to "Right" means "align the text to the right of the radio button." You have the opposite with "Left."
Instead of making a custom control you could use regular labels and RadioButton controls to get the desired output, but you would need to associate a GroupName and check each button individually. This can be enhanced by placing them in a Panel control then looping over them and determining which is selected.
It's more markup but it matches the format you mentioned:
<label>
<asp:RadioButton ID="rbMonday" runat="server" GroupName="DaysOfWeek" />
Monday
</label>
Frankly though, the markup shouldn't matter since it doesn't provide any extra functionality. Ultimately you want to capture the input, and whether the label contains the radio button or not doesn't affect that goal. If the agency you're dealing with is flexible about that you can explain the different options and perhaps they will accept the default formatting, which makes you more productive and allows you to spend less time on this (which, in turn, should make them happier).
Your TextAlign property is set to "Left", which means the text goes to the left of the buttons. I believe setting it to TextAlign = "Right" should do what you want.