How can I use the button tag with ASP.NET?

Question

I\'d like to use the newer tag in an ASP.NET website which, among other things, allows CSS-styled text and embedding a graphic inside the button.

Answer 1

I've been struggling all day with this -- my custom <button/> generated control not working:

System.Web.HttpRequestValidationException: A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

What happens is that .Net adds a name attribute:

<button type="submit" name="ctl02" value="Content" class="btn ">
   <span>Content</span>
</button>

The name attribute throws the server error when using IE 6 and IE 7. Everything works fine in other browsers (Opera, IE 8, Firefox, Safari).

The cure is to hack away that name attribute. Still I haven't figured that out.