Editing the content of ASP.NET Control

Question

Below is the content of my Default.aspx

<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
    <h2>
        WELCOME     
    </h2>
    <p id="exampleId">
        I want to edit here
    </p>

</asp:Content>

I want to be able to find the control with ID "exampleID", and write something into it using c#.

Answer 1

You have few options here:

1. Add runat="server"

2. Add asp.net server side control "literal" inside p

   <p>
       <asp:Literal ID="exampleId" runat="server" />
   </p> 
   

   Don't use Label for that, as this will render with additional SPAN, which you don't want.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

runat = "server" was missing in the tag to access it from code behind.

HTML

<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
    <h2>
        WELCOME     
    </h2>
    <p id="exampleId" runat = "server">
        I want to edit here
    </p>

</asp:Content>

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C# Code

exampleId.InnerText = "Your text";