hi all,

 i have a div and lots of controls within that div. values are populated at run time. now, i want to get the innerhtml of the div in code behind. how can i get that. div.InnetHtml is not working as it gives exception ("contents are not literal controls"). any work around to solve this?

thanks in advance.
best regards,
 

add a runat="server" to the control.

Then, from the codebehind it should be accessible. Depending on where the control is you may need to do a .FindControl() from the parent container, but this should get you on the right track.

Have you marked div runat = "Server"
Can you use literal control.

Satalaj

Hi

Use this

 in .aspx page

<div id="divID" runat="server"></div>

 in .aspx.cs

 string str =divID.InnerHtml;

chandan.max:

Hi

Use this

 in .aspx page

<div id="divID" runat="server"></div>

 in .aspx.cs

 string str =divID.InnerHtml;

I have done the same. With in the opening and closing tags of DIV, i have controls like... asp:TextBox and asp:Label. now, when i try to access the DIV using:
string s = divID.InnerHtml;

I got the following exception:
Cannot get inner content of divID because the contents are not literal.

Any idea about this?

Best Regards

huh? Are you saying you want to read the contents of CONTROLS that are INSIDE the <div..>? If so, you just access these directly, not from the <div..>.

You'll have to show more details.

Hi,

You can only use InnerHTML for HTML controls, wont work with ASP.NET Controls. Whats the reason for trying to access the controls, might be another solution.