Re: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

[Matthew Cruickshank]

Rachel Radford wrote: I'm working with a page that has auto-generated html from a .net engine that I then style up with css. In this case I need to reference one item on the page that has an id of #_1740__ctl2__1125. When I style this up in Firefox it works fine. But it seems that IE gets stuck somewhere on the underscores and ignores the rule. I can't change the underscores because it is .net generated - even though yes, I know that underscores are not recommended as id values. Can anyone help me on how I would get around this? Reference it via some method other than #ID, such as Class. If you need need #IDs you could generate a div within your selected frame by calling a function that optionally drawn html. Eg, (I haven't done C# for months and don't have a place to test this) In ASPX: <div id="<%# checkItem(DataBinder.Eval(Container, "ItemIndex")) %>">     ... </div> and in codebehind,  protected void checkItem(object itemIndex)     {     int itemItemInt = int.parse(itemIndex);     if(itemIndexInt == yourItemNumber)        {         return "<div id=\"myId\">";        }     } .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/