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HtmlGenericControl::TagName Property

Gets or sets the name of the HTML element represented by the HtmlGenericControl control.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.HtmlControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public:
property String^ TagName {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}
<asp:HtmlGenericControl TagName="String" />

Property Value

Type: System::String
The tag name of an element.

Use this property to programmatically determine the element name of the HTML server control. For example, the TagName property for a server-side <span id="MySpan" runat= "server"/> element contains the value "span".

The following code example demonstrates how to use the TagName property to programmatically change a tag name from "Body" to "Font" and back.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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