what's a literalControl?

[MrPolite]

stupid question, can someone tell me?

[Lethal]

The literal control renders static text. for example:

   <b>The literal control spit me out!</b>

[hellswraith]

To go a little further, you can include html tags in the text so they will format the text when displayed.

LiteralControl lc = new LiteralControl("<b>This is going to show up bold</b>");

[MrPolite]

umm thanks, second day working with asp.net still confused about a lot of stuff, hehe


edit: aah
I've got this stupid book, too easy, read 130 pages of it in a day
I dont understand why they used literalcontrol. They are just adding plain text (no formatting, no html tags) to a tablecell

Dim cellFont As New TableCell
            ' ff is just a fontFamily var
            cellFont.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl(ff.Name))
 
 
            ' why dont they use this instead?
            ' cellFont.Text = ff.Name

what's the point of a literal control there?

[Lethal]

Remeber that we are working in an object oriented environment, and it is much cleaner using objects that simply using mass string concactenation.

[MrPolite]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ok

[hellswraith]

To answer your question, I don't think their example needed the literal control at all. But there are a lot of other uses for it.