HTML5 email input cannot assign ID and RUNAT=“Server” ASP.NET 4

Question

Hi I am trying to assign an ID to an HTML5 input so that i can access its value from the code behind in the web form. However with the this code:

Answer 1

If you are using vb.net :

In .aspx page

Avoid type="email/date/mob" in input tag, it may produce parse error

In .vb page, in PageLoad()

   myTextBox.Attributes.Add("type","email")