why are the first characters in my asp login labels in italics?

Question

I can't work out why the first characters of all the labels on my asp login forms are showing in italics:

The code looks like this:

<asp:login DestinationPageUrl="blah.aspx" runat="server" usernamelabeltext="Email Address" ></asp:login>

When I inspect it using firebug it shows that the first characters are being enclosed in tags, like so:

<label for="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderDefault_wwContentArea_ctl03_UserName">
<em>E</em>
mail Address
</label>
...
<label for="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderDefault_wwContentArea_ctl03_Password">
<em>P</em>
assword:
</label>

Does anyone know what may be causing this? I thought it might have been something to do with access keys (if I press alt+e then it focuses to the email text box) but I cant work out how to stop this.

Answer 1

For me, it was because I was using the CSS Friendly Control Adapters. Since my primary motivation for installing them was for the menu control adapter, I've disabled the login control adapter.

• Open the CSSFriendAdapters.browser in the App_Browsers folder.

• Comment out the LoginAdapter, like so:

  <!--<adapter controlType="System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login" adapterType="CSSFriendly.LoginAdapter" />-->
  

There's probably a way to get the advantages of the CSS adapter without the italics.

Answer 2

I can't answer why it was doing it, but I've managed to work around it.

With the line of code still as follows:

<asp:login DestinationPageUrl="/schools/what-works/whatworkssearch.aspx" runat="server" usernamelabeltext="Email Address"></asp:login>

This is what the control looked like in designer view:

Although there are no italics shown, it was being rendered with the first characters in italics as I described in my question. To get around this I converted the control to a template like so:

This created a template that shows the labels for the login fields and therefore I could remove the italics tags.

Although this doesn't answer why it was behaving like this for the single line of code, it shows how to get around it.