How to get Generated Html form HtmlGenericControl

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I have a template for Html page, and I need to add its contents dynamically in ASP.NET. I also need to make many instences of template page, depending in data.

Its obvious that creating large Html using strings is very dirty way. So I choosed to generate my Html using HtmlGenericControl. And i made it. But I cant get the generated Html as string from it.

Its simple to add these controls in ASP.NET pages and get rendered, but I need their Html.

If its not possible, is there any other structrued way of generating Html...???

This one is for usercontrol, but could it help in your case ? :stackoverflow.com/questions/288409/… — Laurent S.
– Laurent S., Commented May 8, 2013 at 13:56

Rudolf Dvoracek · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09 14:23:35Z

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Trick told by @Bartdude worked like a charm...

For other peoples, solution goes in this way...

// create you generic controls
HtmlGenericControl mainDiv = new HtmlGenericControl("div");
// setting required attributes and properties
// adding more generic controls to it
// finally, get the html when its ready
StringBuilder generatedHtml = new StringBuilder();
using (var htmlStringWriter = new StringWriter(generatedHtml))
{
    using(var htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(htmlStringWriter))
    {
        mainDiv.RenderControl(htmlTextWriter);
        output = generatedHtml.ToString();       
    }
}

Hope this helps for coming readers...:)

edited Dec 9, 2015 at 14:23

Rudolf Dvoracek

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answered May 9, 2013 at 4:41

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Michael Dark · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-11 21:26:38Z

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And here is the same code in VB:

    Dim generatedHtml As New StringBuilder()
    Dim htw As New HtmlTextWriter(New IO.StringWriter(generatedHtml))
    mainDiv.RenderControl(htw)
    Dim output As String = generatedHtml.ToString()

answered Sep 11, 2014 at 21:26

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