ASP Control names in resulting HTML

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Anatoli Trifonov

Hi all

Please point me to a link if this can be changed, fixed or something

I have the following control in my UserControl

<img src="pic/dot.gif" border="0" width="50" height="50"
id="imgCenterImage" runat="server" alt="">

After aspx runs through

imgCenterImage.Src = bla bla bla
imgCenterImage.Width = iImageWidth
imgCenterImage.Height = iImageHeight
imgCenterImage.Alt = bla bla bla

Result is this in HTML

<img src="pic/icon_top_how_we_can.gif"
id="_ctl0_ctrlTopMenu__ctl2_imgCenterImage" border="0" width="95"
height="72" alt="How We Can Help" />


Is there any way to control the resulting ID?
This line
id="_ctl0_ctrlTopMenu__ctl2_imgCenterImage"
makes aspx unusable for creation of web sites for search engines

ID starting with "_" is not allowed in

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Thanks

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Anatoli Trifonov
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J

John Saunders

Anatoli Trifonov said:
Hi all

Please point me to a link if this can be changed, fixed or something

I have the following control in my UserControl

<img src="pic/dot.gif" border="0" width="50" height="50"
id="imgCenterImage" runat="server" alt="">

After aspx runs through

imgCenterImage.Src = bla bla bla
imgCenterImage.Width = iImageWidth
imgCenterImage.Height = iImageHeight
imgCenterImage.Alt = bla bla bla

Result is this in HTML

<img src="pic/icon_top_how_we_can.gif"
id="_ctl0_ctrlTopMenu__ctl2_imgCenterImage" border="0" width="95"
height="72" alt="How We Can Help" />


Is there any way to control the resulting ID?
This line
id="_ctl0_ctrlTopMenu__ctl2_imgCenterImage"
makes aspx unusable for creation of web sites for search engines
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Really? You know of a search engine which chokes on the leading "_"? Please
tell us which one.
ID starting with "_" is not allowed in

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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Your "imgCenterImage" id is being changed because it is inside of some
control which implements INamingContainer. THat control appears to have a
defaulted id of "_ctl2". It is inside of "ctlTopMenu", which is inside of
"_ctl0". You should locate the control which is being called "_ctl0" and
give it an explicit id.
 
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Anatoli Trifonov

Thanks for your help.
Really? You know of a search engine which chokes on the leading "_"? Please
tell us which one.
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What do you mean by "chokes"? Page will be indexed of course.
Question is how ...


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_____________________________________
Anatoli Trifonov
Software Developer & Consultant
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
--Thomas Dewar
 
J

John Saunders

Anatoli Trifonov said:
Thanks for your help.


What do you mean by "chokes"? Page will be indexed of course.
Question is how ...
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But will there be any difference in how its indexed between a leading "_" in
the id and no leading "_". In what way will the "_" make a difference?
 
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Anatoli Trifonov

John Saunders said:
But will there be any difference in how its indexed between a leading "_" in
the id and no leading "_". In what way will the "_" make a difference?
Click to expand...
If you declare that page uses HTML 4.0 or 4.1 then
ID="_bla_bla_bla" is not allowed in HTML 4.0 or 4.1.

I'm under assumption that search engine checks for things like this.

Anatoli Trifonov
 
J

John Saunders

Anatoli Trifonov said:
"_"
If you declare that page uses HTML 4.0 or 4.1 then
ID="_bla_bla_bla" is not allowed in HTML 4.0 or 4.1.

I'm under assumption that search engine checks for things like this.
Click to expand...

I think that this would be a false assumption. I can't think of any way in
which checking for standards compliance would benefit a search engine.
 

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