GridView must be placed inside a form tag with runat="server" even after the GridView is within a form tag
.net, asp.net, c#
Solution
You are calling `GridView.RenderControl(htmlTextWriter)`, hence the page raises an exception that a Server-Control was rendered outside of a Form.
You could avoid this execption by overriding VerifyRenderingInServerForm
public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
{
/* Confirms that an HtmlForm control is rendered for the specified ASP.NET
server control at run time. */
}
See here and here.
Problem
``` <form runat="server" id="f1"> <div runat="server" id="d"> grid view: <asp:GridView runat="server" ID="g"> </asp:GridView> </div> <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="t" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="20" Columns="50"></asp:TextBox> </form> ``` Code behind: ``` public partial class ScriptTest : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { g.DataSource = new string[] { "a", "b", "c" }; g.DataBind(); TextWriter tw = new StringWriter(); HtmlTextWriter h = new HtmlTextWriter(tw); d.RenderControl(h); t.Text = tw.ToString(); } } ``` Even the GridView is within a from tag with runat="server", still I am getting this error. Any clues please ?