Font awesome inside asp button

c# asp.net .net asp.net-4.0
Jack picture Jack · Feb 25, 2013 · Viewed 84.7k times · Source

This is my asp:button code which is not rendering font awesome's icon but instead shows the HTML as it is:

  <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnRun" Text="<i class='icon-camera-retro'></i> Search" ValidationGroup="edt" OnClick="btnRun_Click"  CssClass="greenButton"/>

Any idea how can I solve this issue?

Answer

Ryan McDonough picture Ryan McDonough · Feb 25, 2013

You can't with the default asp.net button you will need to use a HTML button and give it runat=server attribute:

<button runat="server" id="btnRun" class="btn btn-mini" title="Search">
    <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> Search
</button>

So use code behind with this you add:

onserverclick="functionName"

To the button, then in your C# do:

protected void functionName(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.Write("Hello World!!!");
}

So final button looks like: 

<button runat="server" id="btnRun" onserverclick="functionName" class="btn btn-mini" title="Search">
    <i class="icon-camera-retro"></i> Search
</button>

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