Hyperlink control

Question

I have a Hyperlink control. It's got .ImageUrl property. When I render it, the results are: My question is this. Within the tag I would like to specify some attributes (like ALIGN). How can I do that just with my Hyperlink control? I don't seem to find a way to access its image tag at all. So, now it looks like I would have to render the and separately by hand and that will suck. Thanks for your help.

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but when you add the runat=server attribute they become accessible by the server.

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HOPMAH. Now you are there :) I hope the name of your control will be ImageHyperLink ;)

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Thanks guys. I actually like my solution. Deriving from controls to create your own controls is fun and what OOP is all about.

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Leeb sure you have not because these are not server controls but ordinary (well not ordinary but on-the-fly created DOM controls) client-side HTML tags.

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here's how in Javascript: var oLink = document.createElement('A'); var oImg = document.createElement('IMG'); oImg.id = 'myImg'; oImg.align = 'left'; oLink.id = 'myID'; oLink.appendChild(oImg); document.form1.appendChild(oLink); I have found you can add any attributes you like using this method i.e. oImg.size = '50'; This will add an attribute of size=50 to your image tag. This code will add the control to your form the only problem is I have not found a way to access the controls from the CodeBehind.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebUIWebControlsHyperLinkMembersTopic.asp?frame=true Look at the Hyperlink control documentation. I think you can specify at least the backcolor bordercolor width height forecolor fonts etc. For alignment I think you can do it with the style attribute like: style=text-align: right if more attributes you would like to add you may try out the Attributes property. You can add attribute to it like: myHyperlink.Attributes.Add(align right); I think this though dirty can do the trick. HTH

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I didn't think it was possible I was just checking. What I ended up doing is creating my own control that derives from HyperLink and adding an Image control variable there that is exposed through a property. And then when I render my control I take care of all those things I needed to.

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I don't think it's possible. Did you try to create IMG control on the fly and add it to Controls collection of your hyperlink? I'm sorry I don't have ASP.NET at my hands now so I can't try it myself.