To turn of the pagination when switching between the design and HTML view, do the following:
Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML/XML | HTML Specific | uncheck Enable HTML validation. Then the "runat=server" will be maintained. -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Collins, Michael G Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] How to insert into the Head, Title, Style, Script tags OK. I know that this has been discussed, but I have not been able to find a good explanation of this yet. The archives are not easy to search. I want to be able to update the content of the <head></head> tag or the <title></title> tag or the <script></script> tag from down within my page. I have a custom control that can dig down into the DOM on the server side, but I can't seem to get it to make any changes that seem to take affect and I can't get any of it to work without setting the runat="server" attribute for the tags I want to change. The next problem is that the editor (VS.NET) likes to remove the runat="server" attribute for any tag that DS feels should not have the attribute. So my questions are: Question 1: Is there a way to access a general HTML tag on the server? I need to be able to change the InnerHtml for the tag and have it show up on the browser. Right now I am trying to use the Render(HtmlTextWriter output) function: Page p = this.Page; bool found = false; foreach( Control control in p.Controls ) { if( found ) break; if( control as HtmlGenericControl != null ) { if( ((HtmlGenericControl)control).TagName.ToUpper() =="HEAD" ) { found = true; string newStr = "\r\n<title>"+title+"</title>" + ((HtmlGenericControl)control).InnerHtml; ((HtmlGenericControl)control).InnerHtml += newStr; } } } The InnerHtml has the data I want, but when I change it nothing passes through to the browser. Do I need to do this before the Render() function or somewhere else? Also this will ONLY work if I set runat="server" for the <head> tag. So Question 2: Is there a way to change what VS.NET deems correct HTML? Is there a template somewhere that I can change to allow runat="server" to be OK for the tags I want? BTW: Microsoft might want to conceder making the entire DOM available on the server side in a similar fashion to the way IE6 sees the DOM on the client side. That way we can adjust the DOM before it gets sent to the browser. (Maybe there is a way to do this, but I can't find it.) Thanks in advance, Mike Collins You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
