ASP.NET Control to HTML tag equivalent
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Solution
This isn't a simple question, as it depends on which version of .NEt you're talking about and states of controls sometimes. For example, the PANEL, in 1 & 1.1 render to a TABLE while in later versions it's a DIV.
But overall (for 2/3), here goes:
Panel - Div
Panel -- GroupingText="###" is Fieldset, Legend
Label - Span
Button - Input, Type Button
Link Button - Href with JS Postback Script
Hyperlink - Standard HREF
Image Button - Input, Type Image
Textbox -- Default is Input, Type Text
Textbox -- Mode = Password is Input, type Password
Textbox -- Mode= Multiline is Textarea
DropDownList - Select
Listbox - Select
RadioButton - Input, Radio with GroupName
Checkbox - Input, Checkbox
Repeater/Listview --Complex.
Gridview - Table
Table - Table
File - Input, Type=File
That's the basics. The more esoteric controls such as the LOGIN control is a table with a bunch of odds an ends within it.
Problem
I'm looking for a cheat sheet that will allow me to show an HTML designer the equivalent asp.net controls for standard HTML tags. As an example the <asp:Panel> will render as an HTML <div> and an <asp:Label> will render as an HTML <span>. I've been googling this to no avail. Can someone post a link to a good cheat sheet so that the designers on this project can understand the markup on the aspx pages more clearly. To be clear, I would like a link to a list of major ASP.NET controls, with descriptions as to how they would relate to standard HTML. It would be great if this were in PDF format or on an easy to read and print web page. The reason, in my case, would be that we have a PHP developer who is very familiar with HTML coming to work on our project, and I feel it would be useful to have a better understanding of standard ASP.NET server controls if I could hand him such a "cheat sheet". I'm referring mainly to the .NET 2.0 framework, but we are also doing work with 3.0/3.5.