adding one control into two places

[Sarky78]

Hi all,

I'm reasonalbly new to .net so please forgive me.

I've got a database, that i am using a pagedatasouce to output the pagination. I looping over the number of pages using a for loop, and am then creating an htmlgenericcontrol li within it, and assigning it to a parent htmlgenericcontrol ul. once i am done with this, i am then adding the ul control to two panels within my aspx file, as i want the pagination to appear top and bottom. when i do this, i get no compile error or run time error, but i only get the one lot of pagination appearing at the bottom of the page (the last one to be added). i am assuming that the controls.add method is more of a pointer to the control rather than a physical copy this into that. does anyone know how i can get two outputs of this pagination to appear on the page?

this is my code:

  pnPagination_Top.Controls.Clear();
  pnPagination_Bottom.Controls.Clear();

  //create the html ul to hold the pagination
  HtmlGenericControl _ul = new HtmlGenericControl("ul");

  //loop over each 'page' and create a li and a link and then
  //add the control to the ul above
  for (int i = 0; i < _pds.PageCount; i++)
  {
    HtmlGenericControl _li = new HtmlGenericControl("li");

    LinkButton linkButton = new LinkButton();
    linkButton.ID = string.Format("PageNo{0}LinkButton", i);
    linkButton.Text = (i + 1).ToString();

    _li.Controls.Add(linkButton);
                    
    _ul.Controls.Add(_li);
  }

  pnPagination_Top.Controls.Add(_ul);
  pnPagination_Bottom.Controls.Add(_ul);

TIA

Tony