ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters Released
Its official -- the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters have finally been released !
What are CSS Friendly Control Adapters? Here's what Microsoft says about them:
ASP.NET is a great technology for building web sites but it would be even
better if it provided more flexibility for customizing the rendered HTML. For example,
the Menu control makes it simple to add a menu to a web site, but it would be better
if it didn't create <table> tags and was easier to style using CSS. Happily,
it's easy to customize and adapt the Menu control to generate better HTML. Indeed,
you can modify any ASP.NET control so it produces exactly the HTML you want.
The key is to use something that may be new to you: control adapters. These are
little chunks of logic that you add to your web site to effectively "adapt" an ASP.NET
control to render the HTML you prefer. The ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters kit
provides pre-built control adapters that you can easily use to generate CSS friendly
markup from some of the more commonly used ASP.NET controls.
So go download and install them today -- and start building more CSS Friendly sites with ASP.NET.