Will Microsoft ever make their AspNet Controls (X)HTML Compliant?

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The current AspNet controls suffer from at least two major defects that often have force me to rewrite my own compliant version of their controls. The defects are simple:

So it is impossible to put a <p>, <div>,<table> on a asp:Panel and have valid XHTML because panel renders with a <span>.

 

If you are old school, hard-core HTML savy, it’s not a big issue – you just use <div runat=”server”> instead of asp:panel, etc.  The problem is that most C# developers are not hard-core HTML savy so they produce pages that fail validation and the likes of me have to grunt thru a refactoring of their pages…

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  1. Bill ForneyApril 7, 2010 at 11:26 AM

    Does this help or is it just a sideways run at the problem?

    http://www.asp.net/cssadapters/Whitepaper.aspx

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  2. Wayne Walter BerryApril 7, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    I was using a Firefox plugin to validate the XHTML compliance of my ASP.NET pages, and wasn't getting very far until I used this technique: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178159.aspx

    However I don't think it will address those particular issues you brought up.

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