controls.add()

Now, you can do this a few ways, but I think the easiest is to use a
placeholder control, then you can add whatever you want to it, but the page
itself is also a control that you can directly add to..

Could I ask for a little more background though.. perhaps there are other
ways depending on what you are trying to do specifically...

Chris I have a few examples of using controls dynamically on my website. Go
to http://www.aboutfortunate.com?page=codelibrary and use the text box there
to search for: "dynamic control" and you'll see all the samples.

To create controls and position them, what I usually do is (and these steps
I do in PAGE_LOAD):
1) Add a PlaceHolder control in the place on the page where I want the
server control to be.
2) Create the server control using Page.LoadControl.
3) Assign an id to the control.  Make sure this id is unique within the
controls collection that this control will be added to.
4) Update the server control for display.
5) Add the created control(s) to the PlaceHolder.Controls collection.

And one hint:
-   You have to do this process on a postback if you want to get data &
events out of the server control.  So, on a postback, do steps 1, 2, 3, and
5; make sure you skip 4 otherwise you will overwrite any value getting
posted back.   And, if you don't keep the id the same, you will not get any
data or events posted back.

Jeff

Example:

ControlContainerPanel is a empty Panel at the bottom of your webform.

TextBox myNewTextBox = new TextBox();
myNewTextBox.Text = "Default.Text";

ControlContainerPanel.Controls.Add(myNewTextBox);

You can add controls to a large number of objects like Page, TabelCells,
Panels and so on. With that in mind you can position them. Another way
that might work is to add some stylesheet information using the
myNewTextBox.Style.Add("LEFT", "160px");
myNewTextBox.Style.Add("TOP", "100px");
myNewTextBox.Style.Add("POSITION", "absolute");

Cheers,
//Rutger

http://www.RutgerSmit.com