CSS for ASP tags

[Ahmedhussain]

Hi,

Im trying to write CSS for master page which uses a contentplaceholder and some other tools as well. I want to write CSS for menu, grids and content place holder.
Please help me out

Thank you

Regards,
Syed Ahmed Hussain

[Frinavale]

It's great that you want to use CSS to design the look and feel of your website.
To get started please check out the W3Schools for information on how to use CSS.

-Frinny

[Ahmedhussain]

I actually wanted to CSS for ASP tags... If its possible

[Frinavale]

What have you tried so far?
It's really easy to set CSS for asp tags.
Simply create a CSS class and set the CssClass property of the asp.net control.

For example:

<asp:Panel ID="MyPanel" runat="server" CssClass="myPanelStyle"></asp:Panel>

Or, if you don't want to create a class, you can set the inline style by supplying the CSS syntax in the "style" property of the asp.net control:

For example:

<asp:Panel ID="MyPanel" runat="server" style="background-color:black; color:white"></asp:Panel>

Please note that not all asp.net controls will have these properties.

-Frinny

[Ahmedhussain]

I didnt tried CSS classes.

let me try this too..

Thank you

Regards,
Syed Ahmed Hussain

[Frinavale]

I forgot to mention that you can also set the CSS style of controls in your VB or C# server side code by using the style property:

myPanel.Style.Add("background-color","black")

[Ahmedhussain]

Well this is more interesting. Can I use this in my CS (C sharp) files. What about the programming standards .. Would it compromise the standards?

[Frinavale]

What standards do you think will be compromised?

[Ahmedhussain]

for example the coding standards. Differentiation b/w the presentation layers, business layers and presentation layers....

And u know many others come into play as well

[Frinavale]

It's nice to be able to keep them separate but sometimes situations require you to be able to control the style of something server side.

For instance, say you have a Label and a TextBox and if the user enters something incorrect you need to somehow indicate this. In this case you need to be able to change the style of the Label so to identify that field is incorrect. You could do that by specifying things through the Style property:

myLabel.Style.Remove("background-color")
myLabel.Style.Add("background-color","red")

Or by setting a new value for the CSS property:

myLabel.CssClass = "myErrorCssClass"