Hello.
I think ASP.NET has many many great fetures and is indeed very productive, but I must say outputs are not very pretty (ASP.NET HTML that is)

Say I want to add something to the header section of my page, maybe 2 links to CSS and a JavaScript.

//My first CSS
HtmlLink myCSS = new HtmlLink();
myCSS.Href = "~/somecss1.css";
myCSS.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
myCSS.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(myCSS);

//Here comes my second
myCSS = new HtmlLink();
myCSS.Href = "~/somecss2.css";
myCSS.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
myCSS.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(myCSS);

//JavaScript!
HtmlGenericControl myJavaScript = new HtmlGenericControl();
myJavaScript.TagName = "script";
myJavaScript.Attributes.Add("type", "text/javascript");
myJavaScript.InnerText = "alert('Hello');";
Page.Header.Controls.Add(myJavaScript);

It's all easy and fancy, but when I look at the output HTML, its all in oneline!

<link href="somecss1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link href="somecss2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><script type="text/javascript">alert('Hello');</script>

 Are there ANYWAY to make it so the output is like

<link href="somecss1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="somecss2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('Hello');
</script>

I'm not sure what the logic is behind the covers.   I tried a few examples to see if I could identify the pattern.  If you dynamically add texboxes, labels, etc.. you also see them in the same line while viewing source.  Tables, rows, and cells end up with line breaks, as do divs and others.  Maybe it's just containers, who knows...

I think you're right in that you can't control it with out extra effort.  If you had some reason you really wanted your html formatted, you could always add a literal control.  for example:

//My first CSS
HtmlLink myCSS = new HtmlLink();
myCSS.Href = "~/somecss1.css";
myCSS.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
myCSS.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(myCSS);

Page.Header.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("\r\n"));

//Here comes my second
myCSS = new HtmlLink();
myCSS.Href = "~/somecss2.css";
myCSS.Attributes.Add("rel", "stylesheet");
myCSS.Attributes.Add("type", "text/css");
Page.Header.Controls.Add(myCSS);

Page.Header.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("\r\n"));

~Rick

Thank you for your reply!

Rick Matthys:

Page.Header.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("\r\n"));

This would work just fine! Thank you so much.