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

As splattne mentions, the label encloses its text in a span, whereas the literal is simply a placeholder. However, be careful in making assumptions about how ASP.Net controls are going to render. It can depend on the user agent that you are using. For instance, the panel control renders as a div in IE, but renders as a table with Firefox.