In developing web form controls (ascx files) the control ids are usually generated as is (this is what the books show and the situation we have for most "sandpit" projects). ie if I have a form with a control called "TestDropDown" that is the id or name I see generated in the HTML at the client end.
Two other projects working alongside our group reported that they were getting nasty prefixes which were messing up their client-side JavaScript (validation controls can't do everything). In IE all fields are prefixed with "_ctln_" where n is the sequence of the control. In Netscape they are prefixed with something similar (but different enough to make it a pain!) I assumed they were having problems down to having a beta installed originally or somesuch, but suddenly all our own code is now generating these control prefixes. Trouble is we can't work out how/what caused the change! Does anyone know what determines that these prefixes get generated. They make life more tiresome for client-side scripting. Is it the number of controls in a project or some setting somewhere? Thanks for any responses, Ian You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
