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As I understand there is no runat="browser" or runat="server7" or runat="Mardid" etc.

So what's the use of this command. Obviously it instructs code to compile on the server-side, but if there are no other options, why isn't it defaulted / implicit?

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but if there are no other options, why isn't it defaulted / implicit?

Because a HTML control can be accessible on server side or client side. for example. 

<div runat="server" id="div1"> </div>

By removing the runat="server" your controls will behave as normal HTML controls.

You may see this blog post: Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET? Part 2

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.So what's the use of this command. Obviously it instructs code to compile on the server-side, but if there are no other options, why isn't it defaulted / implicit?

I am not a pro, but consider the following logic, In the HTML we have a lot of tags, if the runat="server" is defaulted then, the server will have to do processing for the all the html elements on the server (which is not necessary). What happens internally, is something that i also want to know.

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