How to change rendering type of any tag

Question

User1439823427 posted

Hi,

Is there any way to change render type of <p> to <span>?

Or change render type of <span> to <div>.

I have an idea about override RenderBeginTag, apart from this is there any other way to do this. Any suggestion client side or server side will appreciate.

Answer 1

User-16411453 posted

I remember when I first started out, I had some tags that were being changed at render. Had to do with the render call. But then I discovered that if I just made use of the asp.net controls, the tags always rendered correctly.

A <span> tag is the label control

The <div> tag is the panel control.

To make a <div> tag

Dim panel_Control As Panel

panel_Control = New Panel

With panel_Control

.Width = [Width]

.style.add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Margin, "0px auto")

End With

Controls.Add(panel_Control)

So to make a span tag in vb and add it to the panel

Dim lbl_Title as Label

lbl_Title = New Label
With lbl_Title

.Style.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color, "Brown")

.Text = "Hey"

End With

panel_Control.Controls.Add(lbl_Title)

To make a <p> tag, use the literal control

Dim lit_Paragraph As LiteralControl

lit_Paragraph = new LiteralControl

With lit_Paragraph

.Text = "<p class=""SalesText"" style=""margin: 10px;"">" _

"This is my message.</p>"

End With

panel_Control.Controls.Add(lit_Paragraph)

Answer 2

User-319574463 posted

Please see the XHTMLFix project at http://xhtmlfix.codeplex.com/

In such as:

#region Render
    /// <summary>
    /// Initializes the <see cref="T:System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter"/> object and calls on the child controls of the <see cref="T:System.Web.UI.Page"/> to render.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="writer">The <see cref="T:System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter"/> that receives the page content.</param>
    /// <remarks>
    /// This routine can be used in base class.
    /// </remarks>
    protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
      var sb = new StringBuilder();
      var sw = new StringWriter(sb, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
      var testWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
      base.Render(testWriter);
      var pageResult = sb.ToString().Replace("<span disabled=\"disabled\"", "<span");
      writer.Write(pageResult);
    }
    #endregion

The rendered HTML is post-processed to fix problems that otherwise would render the page non XHTML compliant. You can adapt that technique.

Answer 3

User1439823427 posted

Thanks for your help.