I need to reference a control in my web app that was generated with the use of a master page. The name of the control in the HTML becomes something like this "ctl00$MainContent$ListBox1". Can I safely do this in the code?
string strName = "ctl00$MainContent$ListBox1";
if (Request.Form[strName] != null)
{
String selectedLanguage = Request.Form[strName];
}
PS. I cannot use ClientID property because this code is called from InitializeCulture() override.
You could, but what I do is set the MasterPage ID in my Init()
:
protected void Page_Init( object sender, EventArgs e )
{
// this must be done in Page_Init or the controls
// will still use "ctl00_xxx", instead of "Mstr_xxx"
this.ID = "Mstr";
}