Get the HTML rendered by ASP.NET control in Code behind

Question

Hi I want to call the corresponding html inside a Panel in code behind. How can I do that?

I have this

<asp:Panel ID="MyPanel" runat="server">
    // other asp.net controls and html stuffs here.
</asp:Panel>

I want to get the HTML equivalent of MyPanel and all of its contents in my code behind say in PageLoad or some methods.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Does RenderControl() not work?

Create an instance of your control and then call RenderControl() on it. Of course this implies that your panel is in a UserControl

example from comments:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 
StringWriter tw = new StringWriter(sb); 
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(tw); 
ctrl.RenderControl(hw); 
var html = sb.ToString(); 

Answer 2

@Shiv Kumar's answer is correct. However you don't need the StringBuilder for this.

StringWriter tw = new StringWriter(); 
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(tw); 
ctrl.RenderControl(hw); 
var html = tw.ToString();

This also works