HtmlGenericControl?

I had to change the title of the page, depending upon the "mode" querystring variable.

For this, I tried

Code:

---

<title runat="server" id="MyTitle">whatever</title>

---

And then tried to set the value in CodeBehind.

VB Code:

Me.MyTitle....

But it wouldn't work.

I then did a little search and found out I had to add this:

VB Code:

Protected MyTitle As System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl

and then set it's InnerHTML property.

Why did I have to do this "HTMLGenericControl" thing?

In order to access a server control from your code-behind, you either have to create a public/protected control declaration or use the FindControl() method. There is not a one-to-one mapping for all the server controls and html controls, so the one's that do not have an associated server control, get to use the html generic control.