Use C# to write ASP code on a page

Question

I have ASP code like this:

<ext:Panel ID="pnlHelp" CtCls="help-panel" AnimCollapse="true"">
    <Content>
        <h1>some text</h1>
        <p>
            More text[...]
        </p>
    </Content>
</ext:Panel>

I would like to generate the <Content> tag dynamically using C#. I tried this, like with regular HTML tags:

<ext:Panel ID="pnlHelp" CtCls="help-panel" AnimCollapse="true"">
    <Content>
        <% Response.Write("<h1>some text</h1>"); %>                             
        <p>
            More text[...]
        </p>
    </Content>
</ext:Panel>

But the text ends up somewhere near the beginning of the page where I didn't intend it to go. How can I do this?

the_joric · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05T11:50:18.387

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You output appears on the top of the page because your Response.Write() is being executed before page content is put to respose.

Why not just

<%="<h1>some text</h1>" %>

You can create a method that will return a string and call it from your *.as?x file:

protected string GetMyCoolHtml()
{
    return "<h3>this is my text</h3>";
}

....

<%= GetMyCoolHtml() %>

edited Mar 05 '12 at 11:50

answered Mar 05 '12 at 11:21

the_joric

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It worked for the static phrase. But then I put in `<%= GetPhrase("some_text_key", "
some text
"); %>` and I'm getting a " ) expected" error. Why's that? – hardmax Mar 05 '12 at 11:31
check the signature of you method. you code works for me when methoв is decalared as `protected string GetPhrase(string key, string h1Text) { return key + "
" + h1Text; }` – the_joric Mar 05 '12 at 11:34
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Remove the ';'. When using <%= %> for displaying things, no ; is expected. – Abbas Mar 05 '12 at 11:34
oh, sure +1 to @Abbas comment :) – the_joric Mar 05 '12 at 11:35
Okay, this works. What's the name of this inline code tag so I can read more about it? – hardmax Mar 05 '12 at 11:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '12 at 11:29

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Add a literal control to your page and write whatever you want on server side.

answered Mar 05 '12 at 11:29

mslliviu

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Use C# to write ASP code on a page

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