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I'm looking for a cheat sheet that will allow me to show an HTML designer the equivalent asp.net controls for standard HTML tags. As an example the <asp:Panel> will render as an HTML <div> and an <asp:Label> will render as an HTML <span>. I've been googling this to no avail. Can someone post a link to a good cheat sheet so that the designers on this project can understand the markup on the aspx pages more clearly.
To be clear, I would like a link to a list of major ASP.NET controls, with descriptions as to how they would relate to standard HTML. It would be great if this were in PDF format or on an easy to read and print web page. The reason, in my case, would be that we have a PHP developer who is very familiar with HTML coming to work on our project, and I feel it would be useful to have a better understanding of standard ASP.NET server controls if I could hand him such a "cheat sheet".
I'm referring mainly to the .NET 2.0 framework, but we are also doing work with 3.0/3.5.
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HTML allows web browsers to interpret display content written between tags. It allows images and objects to be embedded in the webpage. ASP is used to design user-interactive or dynamic web pages. HTML is basically used to create static web pages.
ASP stands for Active Server Pages. ASP is a development framework for building web pages. ASP supports many different development models: Classic ASP. ASP.NET Web Forms.
Unlike HtmlHelpers, a tag helper is a class that attaches itself to an HTML-compliant element in a View or Razor Page. The tag helper can, through its properties, add additional attributes to the element that a developer can use to customize the tag's behavior.
An ASP.NET control is a . NET class that executes on the server and renders certain content to the browser. For example, in the first ASP.NET page created at the beginning of this chapter, a Label control was used to display the current date and time.
This isn't a simple question, as it depends on which version of .NEt you're talking about and states of controls sometimes. For example, the PANEL, in 1 & 1.1 render to a TABLE while in later versions it's a DIV.
But overall (for 2/3), here goes:
Panel - Div
Panel -- GroupingText="###" is Fieldset, Legend
Label - Span
Button - Input, Type Button
Link Button - Href with JS Postback Script
Hyperlink - Standard HREF
Image Button - Input, Type Image
Textbox -- Default is Input, Type Text
Textbox -- Mode = Password is Input, type Password
Textbox -- Mode= Multiline is Textarea
DropDownList - Select
Listbox - Select
RadioButton - Input, Radio with GroupName
Checkbox - Input, Checkbox
Repeater/Listview --Complex.
Gridview - Table
Table - Table
File - Input, Type=File
That's the basics. The more esoteric controls such as the LOGIN control is a table with a bunch of odds an ends within it.
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Stephen's list is pretty comprehensive. I'd add the following notes to it though:
Mostly it depends on the known BrowserCaps.
A 1.x Panel will render as a div in IE6+ - however in Firefox (or other "DownStream" browsers - considered DownStream because there were no details of it in the Machine.Config by default) it will render as a single cell Table - this could be resolved by supplying updated BrowserCaps for Firefox/Opera/Safari/etc, either in the Machine.Config or Web.Configs.
Also, Control Adapters can change the output - for example the CSS Control Adapters will output styled divs for most of the tabular controls (login, registration, repeaters, etc).
Note that it was announced at TechEd/PDC that ASP.NET 4.0 will have the CSS control adapters built in by default.
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