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Bilgin Kılıç
Bilgin Kılıç

Reputation: 9129

Can I convert a dynamically created c# table to a html string?

Can I convert a dynamically created c# table to an html string ?

I mean like this; 

Table t = new Table();
TableRow tr = new TableRow();
TableCell td = new TableCell();
td.Text = "Some text... Istanbul";
tr.Cells.Add(td);
t.Rows.Add(tr);
t.ToString();
Response.Write(t.ToString());

I wanna see in the page; 

<table> <tr> <td> Some text...
 Istanbul </td> <tr> </table>

Upvotes: 9

Views: 25663

Answers (4)

CD..
CD..

Reputation: 74176

using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
{
  Table t = new Table();
  TableRow tr = new TableRow();
  TableCell td = new TableCell {Text = "Some text... Istanbul"};

  tr.Cells.Add(td);
  t.Rows.Add(tr);

  t.RenderControl(new HtmlTextWriter(sw));

  string html = sw.ToString();
}

result:

<table border="0"><tr><td>Some text... Istanbul</td></tr></table>

Upvotes: 22

Ralph Lavelle
Ralph Lavelle

Reputation: 5769

Just have a Panel on the page, and add the table to the Panel.

So, in your aspx file:

<asp:Panel id="MyPanel" runat="server" />

and in your code behind:

MyPanel.Controls.Add(t) // where 't' is your Table object

That places the table in your panel, which renders the Table as Html to the page, in a nice <div>

Upvotes: 1

James
James

Reputation: 82136

You should update your question to be a little more informative. However, I will assume you are using a DataGrid:

StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(stringBuilder);  
HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
DataGrid1.RenderControl(htmlWriter);
string dataGridHTML = Server.HtmlEncode(stringBuilder.ToString());

Upvotes: 4

Pete OHanlon
Pete OHanlon

Reputation: 9144

Yes. It must become a string at some point for it to be rendered out to the browser - one way to do it is to take this and extract the table out of it.

Upvotes: 0

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