Can I stop .NET eating IDs?

Question

I\'m an Information Architect and JavaScript developer by trade nowadays, but recently I\'ve been getting back into back-end coding again. And, whilst trying to get an HTML

Answer 1

Look at ASP.Net MVC - it addresses the over-kill object hierarchies that ASP.Net generates by default.

This site is written in MVC (I think) - look at it's structure. Were I working on a new project right now I would consider it first

If you're stuck with basic ASP.Net then be careful overriding the ClientID and UniqueID - it tends to break many web controls.

The best way I've found is to pass the unreadable ClientID out to the Javascript.