Wednesday, March 24, 2004
HtmlTextWriter Craziness

With Mozilla (FireFox, Netscape, etc) becoming a more viable alternative to Internet Explorer, we've had a push for Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine) compatibility at work, so we've been going back and redoing some things to layout correctly.

We noticed a few things that just weren't working.  When we looked at the HTML source using FireFox, I was intrigued by the fact that all my div tags had become tables.  Turns out, the ASP.NET browser capability detection identifies Gecko as a down-level browser, and gives you an Html32TextWriter rather than a regular HtmlTextWriter.  And, sure enough, digging around using the Reflector confirmed that div tags are replaced by tables when using Html32TextWriter.

This guy, has a solution.  Just thought some of you would be interested.

The browser capabilities section is extremely powerful and insulates you from alot of headaches, but the default configuration is very annoying.  Take a look at your machine.config and you'll see what I mean.

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posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:14:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0]
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