I would like to write some code in an asp.net Button Text property. Is this possible?
This is how I tried it, but this doesn't work
<%
foreach (Reference reference in allReferences)
{
%>
<asp:Button Text="<%= reference.Title %>" ID="myButton" runat="server" />
<%
}
%>
When this is rendered, it shows literally the string "<%= reference.Title %>".
Is there another syntax, or something else?
Thanks, Vincent
it looks to me you are using ASP.NET with the old ASP classic approach, in web forms you can do something like this which is, in my opinion, way cleaner and nicer:
foreach(Reference reference in allReferences)
{
Page.Controls.Add(new Button(reference.Title));
}
Note: this is pseudo code, in the real code you would get an instance of a new Button object, set also other properties like Id, Text, Click eventHandler and you would add it to a certain container like a div, not to a random position in the page like I did. Also, it depends a lot where you add this code snippet, if in Page_Load or, as usual. in Page_Init.
you need to use '<%= reference.Title %>' , so use a single quote instead of double
