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tshad - 30 Jul 2007 19:48 GMT

I have pages that are identical except for the middle of the page to the
right where I do all my work.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<form>
<asp:...>
<asp:...>
...
</form
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This works fine.

But now I need to add an <asp:Label> and maybe an <asp:textbox> just below
the <body> tag.

Do I need to move the <form> to just after the <body> and the </form> to
just before the </body>?

There is a lot of objects such as images and flash that will now be inside
the forms tag.

Is this going to be a problem? Will it slow the page down doing this?

Thanks,

Tom

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Peter Bucher [MVP] - 30 Jul 2007 20:22 GMT

Hi Tom

> Do I need to move the <form> to just after the <body> and the </form> to
> just before the </body>?

Yes, as the autogenerated Site looks like in Visual Studio.
The whole Event System with the serverside controls build on the form
and needs them around.

[...]
<body>
<form....>
[All other Content goes here]
</form>
</body>
[...]

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tshad - 30 Jul 2007 22:34 GMT

That was what I figured,

Thanks,

Tom

> Hi Tom
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Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider] - 30 Jul 2007 22:09 GMT

Yes, you should adjust the form tags as you specified.
It's ok that a lot of other stuff will be in the form tags. If these
elements are not marked as runat="server" then they will have no effect on
performance.

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr,
MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
http://SteveOrr.net

>I have pages that are identical except for the middle of the page to the
>right where I do all my work.
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> Tom

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tshad - 30 Jul 2007 22:37 GMT

> Yes, you should adjust the form tags as you specified.
> It's ok that a lot of other stuff will be in the form tags. If these
> elements are not marked as runat="server" then they will have no effect on
> performance.

That makes sense.

I was always used to building my look and feel first and then started
putting my <form> tag around the area where my asp objects were which as
usually a cell in a table.

If there is no drawback that putting the form right after the body makes
more sense as it doesn't matter where on the page that I put some object
that may be outside of my normal work area.

Thanks,

Tom

>>I have pages that are identical except for the middle of the page to the
>>right where I do all my work.
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>>
>> Tom

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