How to add an attribute to a html control in code behind?

**Jason L Lind** · Nov 19 '05, 06:03 PM

RE: How to add an attribute to a html control in code behind?

If you add the runat="server" attribute to the element you can call the
element on the code behind by its id as an HtmlGenericCont rol and then set
the attributes like

this.id.Attribu tes["Attribute"] = value

Hope that helps,

Jason Lind
Senior Software Engineer
Triton Tek

"Imran Aziz" wrote:
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> Hello All,
>
> I have a navigation system for the site , in which the links are highlighted
> based on which section the site is in. Now the issue is that I do that using
> a class="thissect ion" attribute as show in the below example
>
>
>
> <li><a href="../themes/" id="n_themes" class="thissect ion" runat="server"[color=green]
> >THEMES</a></li>[/color]
>
>
>
> How can I dynamically alter it in code behind, that is add attributes to an
> html control using code behind ?
>
> My current code behind does something like this to make the links bold, but
> need to add the class attribute to the currently selected section.
>
>
>
> Uri inUrl = Request.Url;
>
> String strURL = inUrl.AbsoluteU ri;
>
> if (strURL.IndexOf ("themes") > 0)
>
> {
>
> n_themes.InnerH tml = "THEMES ";
>
> n_themes = "";
>
> }
>
> else
>
> {
>
> if (strURL.IndexOf ("bookmarks" ) > 0)
>
> {
>
> n_bookmarks.Inn erHtml = "BOOKMA RKS";
>
> }
>
> else
>
> {
>
> if (strURL.IndexOf ("members") > 0)
>
> {
>
> n_members.Inner Html = "MEMBER S";
>
> }
>
> else
>
> {
>
> if (strURL.IndexOf ("sources") > 0)
>
> {
>
> n_sources.Inner Html = "SOURCE S";
>
> }
>
> else
>
> {
>
> if (strURL.IndexOf ("_admin") > 0)
>
> {
>
> n_admin.InnerHt ml = "AD MIN";
>
> }
>
> else
>
> {
>
> n_home.InnerHtm l = "HO ME";
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
>
>
> Imran
>
>
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How to add an attribute to a html control in code behind?

How to add an attribute to a html control in code behind?

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