How can you move ASP.Net controls to different places on the Web form at runtime?

Question

Is there an accepted way to \"move\" a control.

My client wants to place a certain chunk of markup (representing some visual element) in one of several different pla

Answer 1

An alternative (and one I've seen done many times before) is through javascript and the DOM. Render your control inside a hidden div tag. So you would render your content here:

  .. control here ..

Then, lets say you wanted to move it all here (the span tag is inside because that's what we're going to replace):

You would define the following javascript:

And when you want to move the content to the new location, call: