asp:literal or asp:label

[rico14d]

Hi,

What do people think of using the literal control instead of a label control?

Im thinking of just using the literal control as i've had a lot of grief from a customer regarding SEO and the amount of redundant HTML code that is produced in ASP.Net.

With the label control you might produce HTML like
<span id="lblTest">The text</span>

but a literal would only produce
The text

Can anyone see any problems with using the literal control over the label control?

Rich.

 

[dragonwell]

Use the Literal whenever you can since, as you've noted, it produces less html. With a Label, you get additional properties such as Font which you might want to use to set the color or make it bold programmatically.

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[draigGoch]

I use the literal control a lot - maybe too much, for the simple reason that you can incorporate other tags into it like so:

<script runat="server">
Sub Page_Load

myLiteral.text = "<div id=""divID"">This is myLiteral text</div>"
End Sub
</script>

<asp:literal id="myLiteral" runat="serveer" />

Very useful if you are displaying a number of divs dynamically.

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[rico14d]

Thanks for your comments, i think i will start to use it instead of a label all the time.

Rich