Loop through all controls on asp.net webpage

Question

I need to loop through all the controls in my asp.net webpage and do something to the control. In one instance I\'m making a giant string out of the page and emailing it to

Answer 1

Your original method will not work if you start from the root element of your document: something like page.Controls as you will only loop through the first level of controls, but remember a control can be composite. So you need recursion to pull that off.

        public void FindTheControls(List foundSofar, Control parent) 
        {

            foreach(var c in parent.Controls) 
            {
                  if(c is IControl) //Or whatever that is you checking for 
                  {

                      foundSofar.Add(c);

                      if(c.Controls.Count > 0) 
                      {
                            this.FindTheControls(foundSofar, c);
                      }
                  }


            }  

        }