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Liam
Liam

Reputation: 9855

.net control outputting span tags, remove?

Im working on a site built in .net - I have no idea how this works but I have the following...

<asp:DataPager ID="DP" runat="server" PagedControlID="LV" PageSize="5" QueryStringField="jobs">
    <Fields>
        <asp:NumericPagerField />
    </Fields>
</asp:DataPager>

The above outputs my html as follows 

<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_DP">
    <span>1</span>
    <a href="link">2</a>
    <a href="link">3</a>
    <a href="link">4</a>
</span>

Is there a way to output this as or is it not possible?...

<div>
    <span>
    <a>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 617

Answers (3)

Jon Egerton
Jon Egerton

Reputation: 41539

In your server control you can override the RenderBeginTag method:

public override void RenderBeginTag(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
    writer.Write(String.Format("<div id=\"{0}\" class=\"{1}\">",
                               this.ClientID,this.CssClass));
}

Upvotes: 2

Oleks
Oleks

Reputation: 32323

As far as i know, DataPager doesn't support it out of the box. But you can extend DataPager class with overriding of the TagKey property:

public class YourDataPager : DataPager
{
   protected override HtmlTextWriterTag TagKey 
   {
      get { return HtmlTextWriterTag.Div; }
   }
}

Now YourDataPager should outputs as a <div> instead of <span>.

Upvotes: 2

James Donnelly
James Donnelly

Reputation: 128781

Add a CssClass to the <asp:DataPager>:

<asp:DataPager CssClass="myCSSClass" ID="DP" runat="server" PagedControlID="LV" PageSize="5" QueryStringField="jobs">

And it should output:

<span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_DP" class="myCSSClass">

...and you can style accordingly from there.

Upvotes: 0

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