Placeholder

[krol]

Recently I placed some threads (questions) about creating
controls (dynamic) on a webform.
I received a useful tip to use a placeholder.
With this in mind , it is not very difficult to create controls from a xml file. But there is one big problems left :

When I add two labels to the placeholder they are placed next to each other. I want the second label on the next rule.
Is this possible? And are there other ways to place created controls at an exact location on the form?

greetings,

Krol

[hellswraith]

When I add two labels to the placeholder they are placed next to each other. I want the second label on the next rule.

To solve this problem, it is pretty easy. I assume you are adding the controls to the placeholders control collection. If you are doing that, you just need to add a control between them. That control would be a literalcontrol with a br tag as the text:

LiteralControl lc = new LiteralControl("<br>");

Now, add lc in the placeholders control collection between the two label controls. This will put a line break in.

[krol]

Thanks! It works!!!!
If you want to add multiple <br> at the placeholder and only
want to declare 1 literal you have to change the id of the
declared literal and then add it to the placeholder.
If you don't change the id, only one literal is added.
I seems logic, but it kept me puzzling for a minute..


Krol

[hellswraith]

You can put any html and/or text in the literalcontrol:
LiteralControl lc = new LiteralControl("<br><br>");