How to access a div's class from codebehind.

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I am Working in asp.net and c#.

I have a div tag in my aspx page with a class,I want to access this class from code behind.How can i do it..

CODE:

<div class="something"><br />
   //some code<br />
   </div>

where something is a css class..I need to access the class something in codebehind.Please help me solve this issue..

Posted 17-Feb-13 19:29pm

Coder5162

Updated 3-Aug-21 2:51am

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Jameel VM 18-Feb-13 1:35am

what's your requirement?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-13 1:35am

What do you mean by "accessing a class"? From the standpoint of code behind, this is just a piece of text, and your code behind generated it, if you still did not notice that...
—SA

4 solutions

Solution 4

just do like this :

<div class="something" runat="server" id="test1">

server side code is

string str = test1.Attributes["class"].ToString();

// in the str string u will get class name

Posted 18-Feb-13 1:37am

Masoom Mir

Updated 18-Feb-13 1:38am

v2

Solution 3

follow this code assign id of div and make it runat="server" then you can get CssClass name like this.

C#

this.btn.CssClass

Posted 17-Feb-13 21:04pm

Asim Mahmood

Solution 2

Since DIV is a simple html control, you need to make it server control. Then you can access all the properties of it.
You need to do the following:
HTML:

HTML

<div id="dvTest" runat="server" class="something">
//some code
</div>

Code behind:

C#

//Here you can find the value of class easily.
string style = dv.Attributes["class"].ToString();

--Amit

Posted 17-Feb-13 20:14pm

_Amy

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Jameel VM · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-17T19:39:00

Solution 1

Try this link which helps you to access div by class
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2766408/how-to-select-an-element-by-class-instead-of-id-in-asp-net[^]

Also you can access div by id simply like below

ASP.NET

<div id="textDiv" runat="server">your div text</div>

Hope this helps

Posted 17-Feb-13 19:39pm

Jameel VM