visual basic.net 1.1 question

[wendy elizabeth 26th]

I want to setup the presentation layer of a new visual basic.net 1.1 asp.net
web application separate from the business logic and the data access layer.
The presentation layer needs to have a front end that is unique for each of
the financial companies that I process for. Basically I want all processing
to be the same, but the asp.net 1.1 web pages to be unique for each of the
financial companies that I process for.
To accomplish this, I am planning to have a unique cascading style sheet
setup for each financial company that I process for. My problem is occuring
that when I am trying to use some asp.net 1.1 web controls, the 'asp' is part
of the tag. This is fine with me. However when I setup some "div" html tags,
the asp.net 1.1 ide changes the html "div" tags to span tags. When you have
"span" tags, span html tags can not be overridden in cascading style sheets.
Thus, I have the following 2 questions:
1. How can you use web controls so that html "div" tags are noty changed
to "span" tags?
2. To have this unique presentation layer for each company I process for,
what else can I do in asp.net 1.1 besides using cascading styles sheets? Can
you tell me what to do and/or point me to a url that I can use as reference
on how to setup various presentation layers? The only difference in the
presentation layer would be things like font, colors, images brought in.

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Wendy,

Thus, I have the following 2 questions:
1. How can you use web controls so that html "div" tags are noty changed
to "span" tags?
This is a kind of irritating Microsoft thing from which they think they have
to do unasked often in their software, that they do it by endusers is
obvious however in my opinion by developpers not.

However you can see what the HTML editor in the Text part from the options
will do for you.
2. To have this unique presentation layer for each company I process
for,
what else can I do in asp.net 1.1 besides using cascading styles sheets?
Can
you tell me what to do and/or point me to a url that I can use as
reference
on how to setup various presentation layers? The only difference in the
presentation layer would be things like font, colors, images brought in.

I find CSS still the nicest. All others where to time expensive for me.

(The designer from version 2005 uses the CSS styles completely inline by the
way)

I hope this helps,

Cor