how to get the list of all controls used in web form

Question

User1754399827 posted
hi i have a web page with some contorls like table, text box, label, panel etc. when my web page opens i want to know all the controls palced in the web page and their name/id. can any body tell me how to get the control details. thanks durga

Answer 1

User-1926422822 posted
Every control has a Controls property that returns all the child controls. You can access all the controls on a page by iterating over the Page.Controls property and then these controls' child controls and so on.

Answer 2

User1146730029 posted
Hopefully you are using VS, as I do not know how to do this in Web Matrix. Go to View -> Class view. In the toolbar that opens, navigate to your page. You will find a list of all the asp.net controls there. You can select them all and copy their id's from here. I do not know if you can also get what controls they are, but at least you can get theit id's.

Answer 3

User240536124 posted

I know, old question. But I'm going to leave this here since it comes up in searches:

Gets a comma separated string of all the control IDs on a web form:

protected void FindControls()
    {
        System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
        
        // form1.Controls
        foreach (Control c in form1.Controls) //Page.Controls
        {
            String txtId = string.Empty;
            if (c.GetType().Namespace == "System.Web.UI.WebControls")
            { 
                txtId = c.ID;
                sb.Append(txtId + ", ");                
            }
        }

        string cntrlList = sb.ToString();
    }