Preserving form elements' contents in an asp:placeholder?

[Stephen]

I want to create a data entry form consisting of X rows of HTML input
fields. X = number of rows that the user will determine when the web page is
running.

I was able to use an asp:placeholder control and put input tags into the
control using LiteralControl (to preserve my HTML formatting preceisely the
way I want it), but I discovered that I cannot take advantage of the .NET
framework to remember the contents of the input fields if I do it this way.

Is there a way to produce this effect? Am I going to have to add
HTMLInputText controls to the placeholder?

Thanks.

[Chris Priede]

Hi,

Stephen wrote:

I was able to use an asp:placeholder control and put input tags into
the control using LiteralControl (to preserve my HTML formatting
preceisely the way I want it), but I discovered that I cannot take
advantage of the .NET framework to remember the contents of the input
fields if I do it this way.

This is a classic problem with ASP.NET controls created at runtime and has
been discussed a lot, along with solutions. I doubt I could say it any
better, so please don't take the Google search response as unfriendly --
just pick one of the top results. :)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...rols+ViewState

--
Chris Priede

[Stephen]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for suggesting some Google keywords. I didn't know what keywords
would be relevant for tihs search. This will help me do some further
research.

Thanks.

--Stephen

"Chris Priede" wrote:

Hi,

Stephen wrote:

I was able to use an asp:placeholder control and put input tags into
the control using LiteralControl (to preserve my HTML formatting
preceisely the way I want it), but I discovered that I cannot take
advantage of the .NET framework to remember the contents of the input
fields if I do it this way.

This is a classic problem with ASP.NET controls created at runtime and has
been discussed a lot, along with solutions. I doubt I could say it any
better, so please don't take the Google search response as unfriendly --
just pick one of the top results. :)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...rols+ViewState

--
Chris Priede