What's the Literal control used for and what's the difference to the Label Control in asp.net?

Question

What Literal control is used for in asp.net? and What is the difference between them and Label control?

Answer 1

One thing also to note is if you are justing using it to display something and have no need for formatting the text use a Literal control. The ViewState is not as heavy with a Literal vs a Label control and when you have many of these on a page using ViewState it can really bloat your page size.

I always ask myself, do I need to apply a custom style or formatting? Yes, use a Label. No, use a Literal.