Programmatically add a span tag, not a Label control?

Question

How can I add a span tag from a code behind? Is there an equivalent HtmlControl? I am currently doing it this way. I am building out rows to a table in an Itemplate implementation.

var headerCell = new TableHeaderCell { Width = Unit.Percentage(16)};
var span = new LiteralControl("<span class='nonExpense'>From<br/>Date</span>");
headerCell.Controls.Add(span);
headerRow.Cells.Add(headerCell);

I know I could use new Label(), but I am trying to avoid a server control here. Am I correct in using the LiteralControl this way? Does anyone have any better ideas of how to do this?

Sonya

Answer 1

With HtmlGenericControl you can create a span dynamically like that :

var span = new HtmlGenericControl("span");
span.InnerHtml = "From<br/>Date";
span.Attributes["class"] = "nonExpense";
headerCell.Controls.Add(span);

Galcha

Answer 2

Label span = new Label();
span.Text = "From<br/>Date";
span.CssClass = "nonExpense";
headerCell.Controls.Add(span);

Or, alternatively:

Label span = new Label {Text = "From<br/>Date", CssClass = "nonExpense"};
headerCell.Controls.Add(span);

Keslie

Isn't this going to create a label tag? – Dugger

Answer 3

new HtmlGenericControl("span")

Limiting

Answer 4

Following the idea that our friend Canavar said.

Look under System.Web.UI.HtmlControls namespace and you will see a whole bunch of HTML controls that have been mapped to objects, if you can use those. HtmlGenericControl fits in to any controls that are not defined in .NET and SPAN is a exemple of that.

Happy Coding.

Olympus

Answer 5

I know I'm late but I wanted to provide my solution for this issue.

public class HtmlSpan: HtmlGenericControl
{
  public HtmlSpan(): base("span") { }
}

Ye

Answer 6

use literalcontrol. you can add whatever html content you want. I dont recommend label. (for more information search -label vs literal-.)

Radioman