Literal in asp.net

What is Literal in asp.net?



Asp Literal. Text or HTML content can be directly inserted in ASP.NET. This does not require a tag in the HTML. We add dynamic content and minimize the number of DOM elements in the rendered page. The asp Literal control is useful.
Example. Here we use the <asp Literal> control. This is a good way to render content from HtmlTextWriter or to add a comment to a page. First I show an example of the asp Literal tag in the aspx markup. Then we use it in C# source code-behind. 

<ul> <li><asp:Literal runat="server" ID="FeaturedCount1"/> articles</li> <li><asp:Literal runat="server" ID="CategoryCount1" /> <i><asp:Literal runat="server" ID="CategoryText1" /></i> articles similar to this one</li>




We can use code-behind in ASP.NET to "render" the above markup to actual concise page HTML. The above code shows a UL (unordered list), and we want the first list item to say "50 articles". FeaturedCount1 is where we will insert the 50.

public partial class SiteHome : MasterPage 

{

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) 

{

 // Set the bottom article count message. 

FeaturedCount1.Text = SiteStructure.Instance.MapCount.ToString(); 

// FeaturedCountSpan1.Text = "50"; 

string categoryName = "Category"; 

// Just for example. 

int countCat = SiteStructure.Instance.CountCategory(); CategoryCount1.Text = countCat.ToString();

 // "5" 

 CategoryText1.Text = categoryName;

 // "Category" 

 }

 }