Screwing up my HTML

[Chris]

This is one of those things that is really bugging me.

I have a big form (lots and lots of textboxes). I know it isn't the
greatest design, but thats besides the point....

So when I have a Form in IE6 with the readonly property and the
Disabled attribute:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" READONLY disabled="true">

The entire form is made readonly when the person loads it. This is
what I want.

When I do this on my ASPX page the form is rendered as:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" readonly="" disabled="disabled">
This does NOT work.
What gives? Is there no way to tell .NET to leave my HTML alone?

[Oliver]

This is strange since all HTML is interested in is the bare readonly and
disabled attributes without any values as in:

<form id="aForm" disabled runat="server" readonly>

Not sure why ASP.NET adds values, but I'm surprised that they get in the way
and prevent the form from being readonly and the controls disabled.

"Chris" <cm**@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
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This is one of those things that is really bugging me.

I have a big form (lots and lots of textboxes). I know it isn't the
greatest design, but thats besides the point....

So when I have a Form in IE6 with the readonly property and the
Disabled attribute:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" READONLY disabled="true">

The entire form is made readonly when the person loads it. This is
what I want.

When I do this on my ASPX page the form is rendered as:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" readonly="" disabled="disabled">
This does NOT work.
What gives? Is there no way to tell .NET to leave my HTML alone?

[Jalil Vaidya]

You can disable HTML correction in VS.NET from Tools->Options->Text
Editor->HTML/XML->Format. Uncheck the two checkboxes under Apply
Automatic Formatting.

Jalil Vaidya

Chris wrote:

This is one of those things that is really bugging me.

I have a big form (lots and lots of textboxes). I know it isn't the
greatest design, but thats besides the point....

So when I have a Form in IE6 with the readonly property and the
Disabled attribute:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" READONLY disabled="true">

The entire form is made readonly when the person loads it. This is
what I want.

When I do this on my ASPX page the form is rendered as:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" readonly="" disabled="disabled">
This does NOT work.
What gives? Is there no way to tell .NET to leave my HTML alone?

[Chris]

Jalil,

It isn't actually the IDE that is making these changes.

The HTML looks fine in Visual Studio, or if I open it in a text editor
it is just fine.

The problem is that when I browse the page, the ASP.NET engine CHANGES
the html that I have before sending it to the browser.

The ASPX page has:
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server" READONLY
disabled="true">

When you view that page in a browser, you get:
<form name="Form1" method="post" action="NewsArticleDetail.aspx"
id="Form1" READONLY="" disabled="disabled">


READONLY is not the same as READONLY=""

disabled="true" is not the same as disabled="disabled"

kinda sucks



Jalil Vaidya <ja****@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:<uM**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

You can disable HTML correction in VS.NET from Tools->Options->Text
Editor->HTML/XML->Format. Uncheck the two checkboxes under Apply
Automatic Formatting.

Jalil Vaidya

Chris wrote:

This is one of those things that is really bugging me.

I have a big form (lots and lots of textboxes). I know it isn't the
greatest design, but thats besides the point....

So when I have a Form in IE6 with the readonly property and the
Disabled attribute:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" READONLY disabled="true">

The entire form is made readonly when the person loads it. This is
what I want.

When I do this on my ASPX page the form is rendered as:
<FORM NAME="aForm" id="aForm" readonly="" disabled="disabled">
This does NOT work.
What gives? Is there no way to tell .NET to leave my HTML alone?